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 Tabassum Abdullah
Executive Engineer,
Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka, Bangladesh   |
 Jobayda Akhter
Senior Assistant Engineer,
Coastal Towns Climate Resilience Project, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh  |
 Adel Al Marzooqi
Executive Director of Waste and Sewage Agency,
Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Samira Al Rais
Assistant Secretary General,
The General Secretariat of the Executive Council of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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Ramon III Arriola
Project Director,
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Manila, Philippines |
 Atty. Romando S. Artes
Chairman,
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Manila, Philippines  |
 Chris Baber
Associate Director,
Healthy Water Plan, City of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada  |
 Prof Vladan Babovic
Professor,
National University of Singapore |
 Sophie Berard
Engineer,
Water Department, City of Montreal, Montreal, Canada |
Jessica Brooks
Assistant Deputy Commissioner,
Planning & Environmental Services Division, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States |
 Dr Adisorn Champathong
Senior Expert on Hydrology,
Royal Irrigation Department, Bangkok, Thailand |
Cai Wenyun
Deputy Division Chief,
Public Facility Division, Fuzhou Municipal Urban Develop Bureau, Fuzhou, China |
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Guillermo Escobar Castro
Director,
The District Institute for Risk Management and Climate Change (IDIGER), Bogota, Colombia |
Chan Hui Chng
Head of Water Asia,
Jacobs |
 H.E. Chen Min
Vice Minister,
Ministry of Water Resources of China, China |
 Prof Winston Chow
Professor of Urban Climate,
Singapore Management University & Co-Chair WGII, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) |
 Chui Si-kay, Peter
Senior System Advisor,
Drainage Services Department, Hong Kong SAR, China  |
 Dr Piers Clark
Founder and Director,
Isle Group |
Alan Cohn
Managing Director,
Integrated Water Management, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), New York, United States |
 Georges Comair
Lead Water Resources Specialist,
World Bank |
 Cintia Dotto
Water Sensitive Cities Lead,
City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia |
 Dr Mark Fletcher
Director and Global Water Business Leader,
Arup |
 Catarina Freitas
Municipal Director,
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal |
Asako Hamasaki
Director for Planning and International Affairs,
Bureau of Sewerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan  |
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Jerry Fano
Corehead,
Project Manager, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Manila, Philippines |
 Tomoichi Fujihashi
Director General,
Bureau of Sewerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan |
 Hiroyuki Fujita
Chief Resilience Officer,
City of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan  |
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 Meike van Ginneken
Water Envoy,
Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Netherlands |
 Michael M. Gison
Director,
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Manila, Philippines |
 Prof Philippe Gourbesville
President,
International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) |
 Cameron Griffiths
Chief Commercial Officer,
Bygen |
 Joan Carles Guardiola
Business Development Manager,
Xylem Vue and former Water & ICT Projects Coordinator, Global Omnium |
Mark Hegnauer
Director,
Deltares, Singapore |
Adam Hosking
Global Solutions Director,
Resilience and Climate Response, Jacobs |
Patricia Himschoot
Climate Change Manager,
Directorate of Environmental Policies and Strategies, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Gavin Hutchison
Head of Three Waters,
Christchurch City Council, Christchurch, New Zealand |
 Ip Wai Man Raymond
Department Head of Sustainable Lantau Office (Works),
Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) |
H.E. Ishikawa Shin
Assistant Vice-Minister,
Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Tokyo, Japan |
 Sarah Jenner
Head of Catchment Planning,
Conservation and Partnerships, United Utilities, City of Greater Manchester, United Kingdom  |
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Youhei Kitamura
Deputy Director for Facility Planning,
Bureau of Sewerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan |
Kobayashi Hiroki
Deputy Director for International Affairs,
Bureau of Waterworks, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan |
Shigekazu Koike
Head of the Rivers Section of the Urban Development Department,
River Improvement Division, River Office, Department of Urban and Public Works, Osaka Prefectural Government, Osaka, Japan  |
Konami Takahiro
Director,
International Affairs Office, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Tokyo, Japan |
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Kong Jianhua
Division Chief,
Drainage Management Office of Chengdu Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, Chengdu, China |
 Prof Adrian Law
Executive Director,
Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI) Singapore |
 Lykke Leonardsen
Programme Director, Resilient and Sustainable City Solutions,
City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark  |
Li Jinyang
Principal Staff Member,
Water Environment Division, Beijing Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau, Beijing, China |
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Li Xinke
Deputy Director General,
Guangzhou Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau, Guangzhou, China |
Li Yan
Deputy Division Chief,
Water Environment Division, Shenzhen Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau, Shenzhen, China |
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Fiona Macdonald
Manager, Flood Risk,
Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand 
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Stuart McTaggart
Principal Engineer - Environment & Water,
City Infrastructure & Traffic Operations (CITO), City of Sydney, Sydney, Australia  |
Donnie Ray Marquez
Chief of the Research and Planning, and Special Projects Division,
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), Quezon City, Philippines  |
Jose Leo Martillano
Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer,
Quezon City Government, Quezon City, Philippines |
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Marina De Matteis
Head of the Public Works Planning and Management unit in the Environment Dept,
Municipality of Milan (Comune di Milano), Milan, Italy  |
Baltazar Melgar
Director,
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Manila, Philippines |
Miki Urisaki
Engineer,
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), New York City, United States of America |
Susan Moisio
Global Vice President and Global Water Director,
Jacobs |
Mok Wing-cheong, Ringo
Director,
Drainage Services Department, Hong Kong SAR, China |
Celeste Morgan
Australasia Integrated Water Management Lead,
Arup |
Colin Newberry
Technical Director, Water,
Jacobs |
Nguyen The Song
Head of Project Investment Division,
Binh Duong Provincial Management Board of Wastewater Projects, Vietnam |
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Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan
Staff, Asset Management Division,
Binh Duong Provincial Management Board of Wastewater Projects, Vietnam |
Christian Nyerup Nielsen
Global Director,
Ramboll  |
Dr Ioan Nistor
Professor,
Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering & IAHR Lead Team on Resilience and Disasters, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada |
Hiroshi Omata
Director for Reconstruction and Flood Control Promotion,
Bureau of Sewerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan |
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Takehiko Otani
Director of the Facilities Planning Section,
Bureau of Waterworks, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan |
Sanjay Pahuja
Senior Water Resources Specialist,
World Bank |
Prof Jing Peng
President,
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), China |
José Carlos Pimenta Machado
President,
Portuguese Environment Agency (Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente – APA), Amadora, Portugal  |
Jared Policicchio
Global Director,
City of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America  |
Md. Mokhleasur Rahman
Project Director,
Coastal Towns Climate Resilience Project, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh |
Murali Ram
Regional Director,
East Southeast Asia & Oceania, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group |
Phil Raynor
Director of Water & Environment,
Jacobs |
Pedro Schreiber Ribeiro
Head of Water Programmes,
C40 Climate Resilience Team |
Prof Enrique Cabrera Rochera
Expert for the Reconstruction after the Valencia Floods,
Spanish Experts Committee, Valencia, Spain |
Shirley Rodrigues
Former Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy (2016-2024),
Greater London Authority, London, United Kingdom |
Emil K. Sadain
Senior Undersecretary,
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Manila, Philippines .png) |
Natalie Salkauskis
Senior Engineer,
Policy Development Unit, Water Infrastructure Management Section, Toronto Water, City of Toronto, Toronto, Canada  |
Norio Saito
Senior Sector Director,
Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Sectors Department 2, Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
Sato Kiyo
Senior Deputy Director,
International Affairs Office, Water and Disaster Management Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Tokyo, Japan |
Aser Sekgoela
Divisional Head: Bulk Water Services,
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Tshwane, South Africa  |
Kiyash Sha
Forecast Early Warning System Team Leader,
eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa  |
Vinod Singh
Senior Director,
Water for Asia, Jacobs |
Dave Sivaprasad
Managing Director and Partner,
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) |
Jair Smits
Managing Director,
Witteveen+Bos South-East Asia Pte. Ltd. |
Hakyong Song
Deputy Director for Climate and Environment Policy,
Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, South Korea  |
Maria Angelica Sotomayor
Water Practice Manager,
East Asia and Pacific, World Bank |
Sun Yanjun
Division Chief,
Guangzhou Environmental Technology Center, Guangzhou, China |
Maman Supratman
Head of Clean Water Control & Provision Sub-Division,
Water Resource Department, Jakarta Provincial Government, Jakarta, Indonesia |
Suzuki Satoshi
Director General for Technical Affairs,
Bureau of Waterworks, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan |
Stefan Szylkarski
Executive Vice-President,
DHI, Brisbane City, Australia |
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 Pedro Teixeira
Técnico Superior,
Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal |
 Rik Thijssen
Strategic Advisor,
Vitens |
 Johan Verlinde
Programme Director,
Rotterdam Climate Adaptation Plan, Municipality of the City of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands  |
Vo Thi Thanh Ha
Deputy Director,
Binh Duong Provincial Management Board of Wastewater Projects, Vietnam |
 Mariama Whitmore
Project Manager,
Freetown City Council, Freetown, Sierra Leone |
 Meagan Williams
Urban Water Policy & Programs Manager,
Office of Resilience and Sustainability, City of New Orleans, United States  |
Jelle Wildschut
Director,
Vitens |
Jason Wong
Head (Water Plants),
Keppel |
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Xue Zhimin
Division Chief,
Public Facility Division, Fuzhou Municipal Urban Develop Bureau, Fuzhou, China |
S.M. Afzal Zaidi
Municipal Commissioner,
Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, Karachi, Pakistan |
- Confirmed Leaders Attending