Professor Graeme Dandy

Graeme Dandy is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Adelaide and a Director of Optimatics a consulting company that provides advice to water utilities in the USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australia on optimisation of the planning, design and operations of water distribution systems and sewer networks. He has published widely in the areas of water resources planning and management, optimisation of water distribution systems and the use of neural networks for forecasting water resources variables. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is also a chartered professional engineer with Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA).

Professor Mohammed Dore

Mohammed Dore is a Professor of Economics at Brock University where he was the first Director of Environmental Economics. He has worked on resource management issues and sustainability ever since arriving in Canada in the late 1970s .  His early work on sustainable forestry led to the establishment his NSF funded climate change laboratory in 1996.  In 2001 he began work on water infrastructure as one of seven theme leaders in the Canadian Water Network that was established in to provide a vision for the effective management and use of water resources in Canada. Mohammed has a particular interest in the long-term supply and demand of water, and in the impact of climate change on water and water infrastructure. In 2002 he received Brock University’s Distinguished Research Award, and in 2007 one of his former students endowed the Mohammed Dore Graduate Scholarship in perpetuity.  Mohammed holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Professor David Fox

David Fox is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is Director of the Australian Centre for Environmetrics that provides advanced research, training, and consultancy services to government, industry, and academia. David is Director of the Adelaide Coastal Waters Study and also Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Risk Analysis (ACERA).  He was founder and director of successful statistical consultancy businesses in Australia and the United States. Previous clients include: the Port of Melbourne, Barrick Gold, ALCOA, University of Western Australia, Placer Pacific, Ok Tedi Mining, University of Melbourne, SKM, Sydney Water, Melbourne Water, Apache Energy, Woodside Offshore Petroleum.  David previously worked with CSIRO Land and Water.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (London) and holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Wyoming.  His research interests cover design, evaluation, and placement of environmental monitoring networks, the exploration of new paradigms in environmental risk assessment. 

Professor Quentin Grafton

Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics and Research Director at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU) and Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Otago. Previously he was Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (2001-2004) at the ANU, Director of the Institute of the Environment (1999-2001) at the University of Ottawa (UO) and Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at UO. He has an abiding interest in the problems of the environment, especially the overexploitation of renewable resources (fisheries and water), and in social capital and economic growth. He graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1992.

Professor Shahbaz Khan

Professor Khan has recently been appointed as UNESCO’s Chief of the Sustainable Water Resource Development and Management and will also head the UNESCO Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy program in Paris, which co-ordinates international scientific research into water resource management.

Shahbaz Khan is Professor of Hydrology in Charles Sturt University Australia. He is Chair of the International Steering Committee of the UNESCO’s Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) Program; Chair of Irrigated Cropping Forum Australia; Programme Leader for Cooperative Research Centre–Irrigation Futures and Research Stream Leader of CSIRO’s Irrigated Systems Program.

Shahbaz currently leads research in integrated hydro–economic decision support systems linked with geographical information systems for predictive modelling of environmental and economic futures of irrigation areas. He has worked in the China, Philippines, United Kingdom, Pakistan, United States of America and Australia addressing a range of issues in surface and groundwater hydrology. He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham and has ongoing interests in development and presentation of educational tools for farmers, irrigation managers, students and regulation agencies.

Professor Barbara Lence

Barbara Lence is a professor at the University of British Columbia in the Civil Engineering Department where she teaches water resources engineering, design and decision-analysis. Her current research focuses on: developing operational strategies for water supply systems; reliable treatment strategies for surface water supply systems; asset management strategies for water utilities with limited break data and the impact of climate change on urban catchments. Dr. Lence received her doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.