{"id":6,"date":"2014-01-28T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/speak.co.uk\/paulsandpit\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2015-09-07T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T13:03:25","slug":"committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Committees &#038; Organisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Local Organising Committee<\/h2>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"120px\"><b>Jon Rathjen<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Team Leader, Water Industry Team, Scottish Government<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Professor Bob Ferrier<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Director of Research Impact,<br \/>\nThe James Hutton Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Professor Gareth Pender FREng, FRSE<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Professor of Environmental Engineering<br \/>\nHeriot Watt University<br \/>\nEdinburgh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Barbara Barbarito<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Business Strategy and Policy Manager<br \/>\nScottish Water<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"120px\"><b>John McAleese PhD<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Business Partnerships Manager, Research Strategy &amp; Innovation Office, University of Glasgow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"120px\"><b>Dr Alistair Rieu-Clarke<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Reader in International Law, Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (under the auspices of UNESCO), University of Dundee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>International Scientific Committee (ISC) of the Congress:<\/h2>\n<p><b>CHAIR: Dr. Cecilia Tortajada<\/b>, President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico<\/p>\n<p><b>COMMITTEE:<\/b><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\" width=\"240px\"><b>Mr. Jon Rathjen<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Team Leader, Water Industry Team, Scottish Government, Edinburgh, Scotland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Emmanuel M. Akpabio<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Lecturer, Department of Geography &amp; Regional Planning, University of Uyo, Nigeria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Eugenio Barrios<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Director, Water Programme, WWF-Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Marius Claassen<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Research Group Leader, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Anthony Cox<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Head of Division, Environment Directorate, OECD, Paris, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. David Brooks<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Associate, IISD\u2019s Natural and Social Capital program, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. Gabriel Eckstein<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Professor of Law, Texas A&amp;M University School of Law and Treasurer, IWRA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. James Horne<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Principal, James Horne and Associates and Visiting Fellow, Australian National University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Elcin Kentel<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. Lilian del Castillo-Laborde<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Professor, Buenos Aires University, Argentina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. David Molden<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Director General, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. Mikiyasu Nakayama<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Head and Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. James Nickum<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Editor-in-Chief, Water International, Tokyo, Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Markus A. Palenberg<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Director, IFDS &#8211; Institute for Development Strategy, Munich, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. Gareth Pender<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Head of School, Environmental Engineering, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Mr. Puah Aik Num<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Chief Specialist of Water Treatment, Public Utilities Board, Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Ahmet Saatci<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">President, Turkish Water Institute, Istanbul, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. Christopher Scott<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Professor and Distinguished Scholar, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; and Chair, XIV IWRA Congress (Recife, 2011)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Kai Wegerich<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Dr. Jun Xia<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Dean, Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, Wuhan, China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"committee\"><b>Prof. Jaeeung Yi<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"committee\">Professor, Ajou University, Sowon, Korea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Congress Organiser<\/h2>\n<p><b>Speakeasy<\/b><br \/>\nWildwood House<br \/>\nStanley<br \/>\nPerth<br \/>\nPH1 4PX<br \/>\nTel: +44 (0) 1738 828524 Fax: +44 (0) 1738 828419<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Organising Committee Jon Rathjen Team Leader, Water Industry Team, Scottish Government Professor Bob Ferrier Director of Research Impact, The James Hutton Institute Professor Gareth Pender FREng, FRSE Professor of Environmental Engineering Heriot Watt University Edinburgh Barbara Barbarito Business Strategy and Policy Manager Scottish Water John McAleese PhD Business Partnerships Manager, Research Strategy &amp; Innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwra.org\/congress\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}