Dr. Mohamed Ait-Kadi, Chair
Dr. Ait Kadi is President of the General Council of Agricultural Development in Morocco. He is also Professor in the Department of Equipment and Hydraulics at the Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine Hassan II in Rabat, Morocco. Dr. Ait Kadi has been a key player in the Moroccan water sector and contributed to drafting the new water law in 1995. He served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries. He was also appointed Chief Agricultural negotiator of the Morocco-United States Free Trade Agreement. On the international level, Dr. Ait Kadi served as the water and irrigation expert in the International External Evaluation Team of the FAO and member of the advisory panel in the World Bank for the evaluation of water projects. He was member of the founding committee of the World Water Council and initiated the process of hosting the first World Water Forum in Marrakech, Morocco, and was president of its organising committee.
Dr. Uma Lele
Dr. Uma Lele, Indian and US national, brings to the Technical Committee over 35 years of experience in the policy and financing arenas. She worked at the World Bank for much of her career, most recently with their Independent Evaluation Group. She is the first woman to obtain a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University and a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economic Association. Ms.Lele has written or edited 15 books or book-length publications including, The Design of Rural Development: Lessons from Africa, and Aid to African Agriculture: Lessons From Two Decades of Experience. She has led two evaluations of the World Bank’s Forest Strategies including the one currently underway of the Bank’s Role in Reducing Deforestation and Climate change (forthcoming), the Meta Evaluation of the CGIAR, 2002, and the World Bank’s Global Programs 2005. She was a panel member of the Independent External Evaluation of FAO in 2006-2007.
Mr. Wouter Lincklaen Arriens
Wouter Lincklaen Arriens is the Lead Water Resources Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He obtained a M.Sc. in tropical land and water management from Wageningen University in the Netherlands specializing in policy and management. After his first water assignment in Indonesia in 1979, he has lived in Asia since 1985 with experience ranging from participatory community projects to river basin programs and water leader summits. He joined the ADB in 1992, and his current interests include IWRM processes in river basins; water security and governance; regional knowledge hubs and networking; and integral water leadership coaching.
Prof. Oscar De Moraes Cordeiro Netto
Professor Oscar De Moraes Cordeiro Netto of Brasil, as the President of the National Water Master Plan Commission (CTPNRH) and President of the Brazilian Water Resources Council (CNRH), will support Technical Committee thinking on the practical implementation of IWRM and the concept of a "National Water Security Pact". Professor Cordeiro is currently a member of the GWP Steering Committee.
Dr. Madiodio Niasse
Dr Madiodio Niasse is currently the Director of the International Land Coalition. From Senegal, Dr Niasse holds a doctorate in environmental sciences and has qualifications in environmental and social impact assessment as well as public participation and conflict management. Dr Niasse has served as chairman of GWP West Africa and as such will bring a regional perspective for the operationalization of GWP’s knowledge chain.
Dr. Claudia Sadoff
Dr. Claudia Sadoff is an economist whose work has focused on water resources policies, incentives and institutions, and the dynamics of water, wealth and poverty. She holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley, a Masters from Columbia University, and has worked as a development practitioner and researcher in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Dr. Tushaar Shah
Dr. Tushaar Shah is a Senior Fellow of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka. He obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad and specialized as a development economist and in strategic management. Before IWMI, Shah consulted with scores of NGOs, governments and lending institutions, including the World Bank, Ford Foundation, Swiss Agency for Development Co-operation, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. He is the author of five books and over 50 research papers. His expertise includes areas of groundwater governance in Asia and Africa and the practical implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management in developing countries. In 2002, Tushaar Shah was given the ‘Outstanding Scientist’ award of the Consultative Group of International Agriculture Research (CGIAR).
Prof. Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy
Professor Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy of Sri Lanka is the founding Director of the School of Global Sustainability, the director of the Patel Centre for Global Solutions and a tenured professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at the University of South Florida, USA. He is also Professor of Sustainable Urban Water Systems at UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, in the Netherlands. He was the director of SWITCH, a 25 million euro EU research project for Integrated Water Management for the City of the Future. Professor Vairavamoorthy is an expert in urban water systems operating under future global change pressures and their implications on water governance.
Prof. Eelco van Beek
Professor Eelco van Beek of the Netherlands currently teaches IWRM at the University of Twente. Prof. van Beek was a professor in Modelling in Integrated Water Resources Management at the Delft University of Technology (1992 – 2004), and today leads the Delft Hydraulics research project on Integrated River Basin Management and water allocation under drought conditions. For 35 years he has worked on the interface between IWRM research and its application in the field, and been involved in implementing IWRM in a number of countries.
Dr. Dale Whittington
Dr. Dale Whittington is a professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and at the Manchester Business School (UK). Professor Whittington teaches in the areas of environmental economics, nonmarket valuation, water resource policy, and cost-benefit analysis. His main research interests are water resources policy, international river basin management, and municipal water and sanitation planning in developing countries.
Mrs. Patricia Wouters
Patricia Wouters began her career as a practicing lawyer in (Alberta) Canada. She went on to study comparative constitutional law at UC Berkeley and public international law, with a focus on water law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies/University of Geneva. Pat was recruited to the University of Dundee and founded the graduate programme in water law and policy (1996). Pat now heads up the newly established Dundee UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science.
Contact
Contact the GWP Technical Committee via e-mail to Danka Thalmeinerova, Knowledge Management Officer: danka.thalmeinerova@gwp.org.