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Confirmed Leaders Attending

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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
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
Benjamin Bautista Project Director, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Manila, Philippines	Sophie Berard Engineer, Water Department, City of Montreal, Montreal, Canada	H.E. Ahmad bin Thani Director General, Dubai Environment and Climate Change Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Ahmad Bourguiba Head, Resilience Committee for the Emirate of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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	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)	Choy Man-yee Doris Senior Engineer, Drainage Services Department, Hong Kong SAR, China
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	Jamila El Mir Strategy Advisor to the Director General, Dubai Environment and Climate Change Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Essa Juma Manager of Director General Office, Dubai Environment and Climate Change Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	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	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	Rie Fukuda Senior Staff, Bureau of Sewerage, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan	Aisea Fungavai Principal Disaster Risk Management Officer, Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications, Tonga

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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	Adam Hosking Global Solutions Director, Resilience and Climate Response, Jacobs	Patricia Himschoot Climate Change Manager, Directorate of Environmental Policies and Strategies, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gavin Hutchison Head of Three Waters, Christchurch City Council, Christchurch, New Zealand	Ip Wai Man Raymond Deputy Project Manager of South Development and Sustainable Lantau Office, 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
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 Executive Director, River Management Office, River Improvement Division, River Management 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
Kong Jianhua Division Chief, Drainage Management Office of Chengdu Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, Chengdu, China	Kubota Akihiro Engineering Director, Japan Water Forum, Tokyo, Japan	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	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	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
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	Urisaki Miki Engineer, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), New York City, United States	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
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
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

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

Jan Rasmussen

Project Director,
City of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Denmark

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	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	Ahmad Shuhail Environment Projects Director, Dubai Environment and Climate Change Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Clara Sidan Assistant Director, Stormwater & Permitting, Department of Resilience and Public Works, Miami, United States
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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Yusuke Takeshima Assistant Director, River Improvement Division, River Management Office, Department of Urban and Public Works, Osaka Prefectural Government, Osaka, Japan	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	Alex Wu Executive Director, Water, AECOM	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