About us

What we do

At Global Water Intelligence we aim to do two things for our readers:
 
  • tell you where your next dollar is coming from by tracking major water projects around the world from conception to contract award
  • discuss with you the emerging trends in the industry to help you formulate strategy in a rapidly changing world
It has made us the unchallenged leader in high-value business information for the water industry. It is a position we have achieved by following a few simple rules:
 
  1. We talk to people: the internet has made a certain kind of information omnipresent: press releases and PR announcements are multiplied many thousands of times over, but what about events and opportunities that those involved would rather you didn't know about? What about the thoughts and responses of the people who are really in the know? That kind of information is exclusive, rare and valuable. It comes from a huge list of contacts, a big telephone bill, and an easy conversational manner.
  2. We don’t give up: we spend most of our time at GWI not getting through to people. It is a busy world, and senior people are always on the move. Sometimes it might take 50 phone calls to reach the person with the details of a new project. We don’t give up. We make those 50 phone calls because if we don’t, we know that you will have to.
  3. We believe in something: a magazine without values is a very dry thing. At GWI, we're passionate about the value of water. If we can establish the economic worth of water, then everything else will follow. We'll see investment in extending water services to the poor, and greater efforts to conserve water in those areas facing the crisis of scarcity.
 

Publications

We publish:

  • Global Water Intelligence magazine
  • Water Desalination Report newsletter
  • DesalData.com website
  • IDA Desalination Yearbook
  • In-depth market reports
For the full list, see our publications guide.
 

Conferences

We run two conferences each year, the Global Water Summit, and the American Water Summit. The annual Global Water Awards are presented at the Global Water Summit. For details on the latest water conferences, see GWI conferences.

Who are we?

Editorial

Publisher: Christopher Gasson
Christopher is an authority on water finance and markets. After a degree in politics and economics at Oxford University, he worked as a financial journalist and in corporate finance, before acquiring Global Water Intelligence in 2002. He is a regular speaker at water-related conferences, and conducts confidential consultancy assignments on request.
Contact him if you have any query about GWI’s research reports or market analysis, if you are considering a collaboration with GWI, if you need consultancy services or if you are a journalist looking for an inside angle on a water-related story.
 
Editor, Global Water Intelligence: Ian Elkins
Ian joined GWI in 2006 after nine years as a financial journalist with MCM, where he reported on the international bond markets. He has developed a particular expertise in water finance, although his general knowledge of the water sector underpins the accuracy of the information reported in the magazine. He speaks German, Spanish and Russian.
Direct line: +44 1865 208 043
 

Deputy editor, Global Water Intelligence: Rhys Owen
Rhys manages the project trackers for GWI and AWI plus desaldata.com and the IDA Desalination Yearbook.
Contact: ro@globalwaterintel.com

Editor, Water Desalination Report: Tom Pankratz
Tom has edited Water Desalination Report since 2004. He has 35 years of experience in the water industry and is a well-known authority on desalination technology. His most significant area of expertise is intakes and outfalls for seawater desalination plants. He is a consultant in the water sector, a regular speaker at conferences, and a member of a number of industry committees.
Contact: tp@globalwaterintel.com

Correspondents

Middle East editor: Tom Scotney
Contact: ts@globalwaterintel.com
Telephone: +44 1865 208 040

Asia editor: Olivia Jensen
Contact:oj@globalwaterintel.com
Telephone: +65 65153327

China editor: Emma Dou
Contact: ed@globalwaterintel.com
Telephone: +86 10 6298 8863

Australia editor: Max Borchardt
Contact: mb@globalwaterintel.com
Telephone: +61 402 071 483

India editor: Rama Singh Rastogi
Contact: rr@globalwaterintel.com

North Africa: Emilie Filou
Contact: efilou@globalwaterintel.com
Telephone: +44 7779 268 559 

Iberia: Richard Weyndling
Telephone: +34 948 210 625
 
City: Andrew Cavenagh
Contact: cavandy@aol.com
 

Research and consultancy

Head of research and consultancy: Jablanka Uzelac
Jablanka leads our growing research and consultancy team. She is responsible for our research project portfolio. Contact her if you have any ideas for future research directions or if you need consultancy services.
Contact: ju@globalwaterintel.com
 
Head of analysis: Heather Lang
Heather is in charge of combining GWI's industry knowledge with data from published and proprietry sources, and communicating the stories that they tell.
Contact: hl@globalwaterintel.com
 

Senior researcher: Fabiola Alvarado-Revilla
Contact: fa@globalwaterintel.com

Primary research programme manager: Lola Arowoshola
Lola is in charge of managing and developing the primary research reports series.
Contact: la@globalwaterintel.com
 
Research analyst: Hector Brown
Contact: hb@globalwaterintel.com
 
Research analyst: Eve Corrie
Contact: ec@globalwaterintel.com
 
Research analyst: Valentina Pinamonti
Contact: vp@globalwaterintel.com
 

Research analyst: Jelena Stanic
Contact: jstanic@globalwaterintel.com

Senior project manager: Clara Gonzalez-Manchon
 
Senior researcher: Marta Hudecova
 

Production and commissioning editor: Charlotte Massey
Contact: cm@globalwaterintel.com

Principal consultant: Antoine Schmitt

Contact: aschmitt@globalwaterintel.com

GWI (Japan), Lead Consultant: Hiroko Kasama
Contact: hk@globalwaterintel.com
+44 (0) 1865 256 028

Research interns: Mitch Bibby, Matthew Daggitt, Jonathan Goddard, Prakhar Jain, Ruby Marsden

Global Water Leaders Group

Secretary General: Samantha Yates
Contact: sy@globalwaterleaders.org  

DesalData.com

Editor: James Brooks
Contact: jb@globalwaterintel.com

Product development manager: Oliver Rollinson
Contact: or@globalwaterintel.com 

Sales and marketing

Sales and marketing director: Emma Welsh
Contact Emma if you need any further information about GWI products and services.
Contact: ewelsh@globalwaterintel.com

Advertising and sponsorship manager: Dominique Winpenny

Contact: dwinpenny@globalwaterintel.com

Advertising Sales Assistant: Sadé Lee
Contact: sl@globalwaterintel.com
 
Media partnerships - sales and marketing executive: Jennifer Yeulet
Contact Jennifer if you would like a media partnership for your conference/exhibition.
 
GWI subscriptions - sales and marketing executive: Dominique Winpenny
Contact: dwinpenny@globalwaterintel.com
 
WDR Subscriptions - sales and marketing executive: Jennifer Yeulet
 
DesalData.com Subscriptions - sales and marketing executive: Jon Direen

Contact: jd@globalwaterintel.com

Market Reports: sales and marketing executive: Chantal Marchesi
Contact: cmarchesi@globalwaterintel.com

Website Manager: Camilla Wright Premachandra
Contact: cp@globalwaterintel.com
 

Conferences and Events

Events manager: Ruth Newcombe
 
Training courses - sales and marketing executive: Gina Rowland
Contact: growland@globalwaterintel.com
 
Events co-ordinator: Alex Cheetham
 

Accounts and Operations

Accounts director: Andrew Ferry
Andrew heads up the accounts department. Contact him with queries relating to making payments to Media Analytics Ltd.
Telephone: +44 1865 208 048

 

Accounts assistant: Jeanette Cowley
Jeanette is responsible for HR.
Contact: jcowley@globalwaterintel.com
 
Customer services executive: Ewa Legowik
 
Customer services executive: Rachel Painter
Contact Rachel: rp@globalwaterintel.com
 
IT support: Mayur Pant 
 

Company history

Global Water Intelligence was launched in June 2000 by the CWC Group, with Peter Allison as editor. Initially it focused on the private water market, but Christopher Gasson’s Media Analytics Ltd. acquired it in September 2002, with just the editor transferring to the new owner. In 2003 GWI launched Desalination Tracker, which, together with our 2004 Desalination Markets report, transformed the fortunes of the company.
 
In 2005 Media Analytics acquired two related publications: the IDA Worldwide Desalting Plant Inventory, and Water Desalination Report. WDR was founded in 1965 by Dick Smith, and had a very established but irreverent position as the chronicle of the desalination industry. Dick Smith, who had edited the magazine single-handedly from a wheelchair following a car accident which left him partially paralysed, retired after the acquisition. Tom Pankratz took over the title.
 
The Inventory was also founded in 1965. It had been published in recent years by German desalination consultant Klaus Wangnick. Under Media Analytics’ ownership, the Inventory was recast as the IDA Desalination Yearbook and DesalData.com
 
Today, the company employs around 40 people at its Oxford headquarters, and a further half dozen or so at various locations around the world.