Tobias Schmitz currently works at the Global Institute for Water, Environment and Health as Senior Advisor Water Resources and Monitoring. Tobias Schmitz has a background at Both ENDS, focusing on the infrastructure around for instance dams, and the right to water and sanitation. He worked in South Africa for many years, amongst other things as senior researcher and research manager at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. He has a background in development studies and has completed a PhD on institutional responses to water scarcity in South Africa.