Water Security for Asia Governance, Restoration, and Digital Innovation for Rivers and Lakes

·Prof. Asit K. Biswas is Director, Water Management International Pvt Ltd, Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow, UK, and Chief Executive, Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico. Prof Biswas is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on water, food, environment and development-related issues. He has a very distinguished career as an academic; senior public official in Canada; advisor and confidant to Presidents, Prime Ministers and Ministers in 23 countries, six Heads of United Nations Agencies, two Secretaries-General of OECD, several Heads of bilateral aid agencies, and four CEOs or Chairmen of MNCs in Fortune 500 list.

·Dr. Jing Peng, Professor and former President of the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR). Dr. Peng is a Fellow of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and Director General of its China Chapter. She earned her B.S. in Hydraulic Machinery and M.S. in Hydraulics and River Dynamics from Tsinghua University, and her Ph.D. in River and Basin Environment from the University of Tokyo. Her research interests encompass hydraulic engineering, river pollution control, water environment restoration, water-related disaster risk management, and river ethics and applications.

·Dr Cecilia Tortajada is Honorary Professor at School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK; Adjunct Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Visiting Professor, School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China; and Visiting Research Professor and member of the Advisory Board ofTransboundary Rivers, Ecologies and Development Studies (TREADS), Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. She has more than 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy, with a focus on water resources management and its policy, social, environmental, and political dimensions. Her current work is on impacts of global changes on water, food and environmental security.