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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 .png) |
 Juan Azcarate
Deputy Director,
Madrid City Council, Madrid, Spain |
 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  |
Abdul Rahim bin Abdullah
Deputy General Manager,
Bintulu Development Authority, Sarawak, Malaysia |
Datu Haji Muhamad Yakup bin Kari
General Manager,
Bintulu Development Authority, Sarawak, Malaysia |
 H.E. Ahmad bin Thani
Director General,
Dubai Environment and Climate Change Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Ahmad Burquiba
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  |
Cai Wenyun
Deputy Division Chief,
Public Facility Division, Fuzhou Municipal Urban Develop Bureau, Fuzhou, China |
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Gonzalo del Castillo
Strategic Planning Advisor,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
 Dr Adisorn Champathong
Senior Expert on Hydrology,
Royal Irrigation Department, Bangkok, Thailand  |
Chan Hui Chng
Head of Water Asia,
Jacobs |
 H.E. Chen Min
Vice Minister,
Ministry of Water Resources of China, China |
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Chew Men Leong
President,
Singapore Water Association |
 Prof Winston Chow
Professor of Urban Climate,
Singapore Management University & Co-Chair WGII, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) |
 Doris Choy
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 |
 Georges Comair
Lead Water Resources Specialist,
World Bank |
Nathania Rae Z. Cortes
Officer-in-Charge (OIC) - Chief Economic Development Specialist,
Infrastructure Staff – Water Resources Division, Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev), Mandaluyong, Philippines |
 Cintia Dotto
Water Sensitive Cities Lead,
City of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia  |
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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 |
 Julia M. Fraser
East Asia & Pacific Regional Practice Director,
Planet Director, World Bank Singapore Office, Singapore |
 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 |
 Grace Fu
Minister for Sustainability and the Environment and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations,
Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore |
 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 |
Vugar Hajiyev
Head of the Department of Operation of Electromechanical Devices of the United Water Supply Service of Large Cities,
Azerbaijan State Water Resources Agency (SWRA), Azerbaijan |
Mark Hegnauer
Director,
Deltares |
 Adam Hosking
Global Solutions Director,
Resilience and Climate Response, Jacobs |
 Gavin Hutchison
Head of Three Waters,
Christchurch City Council, Christchurch, New Zealand |
 Ar. Mary Grace G. Ignacio
Planning Officer III,
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) |
 Raymond Ip
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 Integrated Water Management,
United Utilities, City of Greater Manchester, United Kingdom  |
Dato Haji Haidar Khan Bin Asghar Khan
Deputy Chairman,
Bintulu Development Authority, Sarawak, Malaysia |
Malik Najaf Khan
Chief Operating Officer,
Sindh People's Housing For Flood Affectees, Pakistan |
Ioseb Kinkladze
Deputy Head of the Department of Hydrometeorology,
LEPL National Environmental Agency, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, Georgia, Georgia |
 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, 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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Kubota Akihiro
Engineering Director,
Japan Water Forum, Tokyo, Japan |
Jhaman Lalchandani
Wash Specialist,
Sindh People's Housing For Flood Affectees, Pakistan |
 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 
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YBhg. Datu Sr. Zaidi Haji Mahdi
Director,
Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA) |
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  |
H.E. Retno Marsudi
United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Water
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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 |
Susan Moisio
Senior Vice President,
Global Water Director, Jacobs |
Mok Wing-cheong, Ringo
Director,
Drainage Services Department, Hong Kong SAR, China |
Pedro Catalinas Montero
General Directorate of Water and Green Zones Management,
Madrid City Council, Madrid, Spain |
Celeste Morgan
Australasia Integrated Water Management Lead,
Arup |
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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 |
Dr Virginia Newton-Lewis
Head of Water and Development,
Grundfos Foundation, Sweden |
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 |
Eng. Johanna Patiño
Operations Manager,
METROPOLITAN PUBLIC COMPANY FOR WATER AND SANITATION, AGUA DE QUITO (Quito Water), Quito, Ecuador |
Pradip Paudel
Senior Divisional Engineer / Chief of Infrastructure Department,
Lalitpur Metropolitan City, Nepal |
Prof Jing Peng
President,
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), China |
José Carlos Pimenta Machado
Chairman of the Board of Directors,
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 |
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Jan Rasmussen
Project Director,
City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Phil Raynor
Director of Water & Environment,
Jacobs |
Sri D. Srinivasa Reddy
Senior Infrastructure Planner,
Amaravati Development Corporation Limited, India |
Pedro Schreiber Ribeiro
Head of Water Program,
C40 Cities |
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Allan Micheal Rimong
Senior Manager,
Property Development Division, Land Custody and Development Authority |
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 |
Abhishek Saha
Senior Data Scientist,
Hydroinformatics Institute |
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 |
Duane Schlicht
Area Director,
Nihjuis Industries |
Aser Sekgoela
Divisional Head: Water and Wastewater,
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Tshwane, South Africa  |
Ishikawa Shin
Assistant Vice-Minister,
Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Tokyo, Japan |
Kiyash Sha
Senior Engineer,
eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa  |
Khalid Mehmood Shaikh
Chief Executive Officer,
Sindh People's Housing For Flood Affectees, Pakistan |
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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, City of 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 |
Prof Dr Guus Stelling
Emeritus Professor,
Technical University of Delft |
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Beverley Stinson
Vice President & Global Water Business Line Leader,
AECOM |
Sun Yanjun
Director,
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  |
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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 |
 Tiffany White
General Manager Strategy & Community,
Yarra Valley Water, Melbourne, Australia |
Jason Wong
Head (Water Plants),
Keppel |
 Alex Wu
Executive Director,
Water, AECOM |
 Xu Xianning
Deputy Branch Director,
Ecology and Environment Bureau of Qingdao High-tech District, Qingdao, China |
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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 |
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