The Partnership

	United States Oregon State University (USA) Aaron Wolf is an associate professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State University. His research focus is on the interaction between water science and water policy, particularly as related to conflict prevention and resolution. He is author of Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River: The Impact of Scarce Water Resources on the Arab-Israeli Conflict, (United Nations University Press, 1995), and a co-author of Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water, (Oxford University Press, 1997) and Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Resolution, (United Nations University Press, 2000). Wolf coordinates the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database, an electronic compendium of case studies of water conflicts and conflict resolution, international treaties, national compacts, and indigenous methods of water dispute resolution (www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu). He has acted as consultant to the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development, and the World Bank on various aspects of transboundary water resources and dispute resolution in the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, West Africa, Mexico. He is fluent in Hebrew.
	Lynette de Silva is the Associate Director of the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation at Oregon State University. Ms. de Silva coordinates the administration and implementation of three focus area programs: the graduate/professional certificate program; the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database, an information technology/outreach program; and the University Partnership for Transboundary Waters, a collaborative research program. This involves contributing to issues of topical scientific and societal importance; adding to state, national, and international visibility; and consolidating programmatic cores and teaching missions.
	Michael Campana, is a hydrogeologist and international expert on a range of complex water management issues. He became Director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University in June 2006 after serving as the director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico. He has done extensive research on water resources in developing countries, transboundary water resource issues, water allocation and availability, and other areas. He is also founder and president of a charitable foundation that funds and undertakes water, health and sanitation projects in developing nations. Dr. Campana received his doctorate in hydrology from the University of Arizona.
	University of New Mexico (USA) Sanford E. Gaines is committed to continuing the core missions of The Utton Transboundary Resources Center: interdisciplinary study and publication on natural resources law and policy; presentation of training programs and educational conferences; service as a neutral convenor for the diverse communities engaged in resource management; and provider of independent information and analysis to policy makers and participants on resource issues. Sandy has long been dedicated to the negotiation and study of effective rules and institutions for regional and international management of the environment and natural resources. His earliest work included a study of laws affecting the management of marine mammals and an investigation into the transboundary effects on Canada of return flows from a proposed U.S. irrigation project. More recently, he participated as a senior government official in the negotiation of the environmental side agreements to the North American Free Trade Agreement, and later served in a private capacity on the U.S. national advisory committee concerning the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. He has made presentations at seminars and conferences on international and comparative environmental law in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and Germany, and was among the environmental law professors from many countries who helped establish a world-wide Academy of Environmental Law. As a law professor, Sandy directed a summer study program in Mexico, was a Fulbright senior lecturer in Denmark, and published extensively on issues of legal responsibility for transboundary environmental harm, institutions for the management of transboundary resources, sustainable development, and trade and environment.
	Southern Africa University of Pretoria (South Africa) Anthony Turton is the head of the African Water Issues Research Unit at the University of Pretoria. He manages the partnership between ARCUS GIBB (an engineering firm) and the Southern Education and Research Alliance (SERA), which consists of the CSIR and the University of Pretoria. Dr. Turton is a political scientist specializing in transboundary water resource management including support to negotiations between Governments and other role-players in international river basins. He has extensive experience in strategic planning in situations of high conflict specifically with a view to mitigating that conflict and moving towards a posture of peace. Linked with this is his ability to develop accurate forecasting to guide decision-making under conditions of political uncertainty, and thereby reduce risk. He has managed and consulted on projects in various parts of Africa in the fields of Water Demand Management, Transboundary Water Management, Integrated Water Resources Management, Determination of Environmental Flows, Strategic Environmental Assessment, Policy Formation and Institutional Development.
	Peter Ashton is employed as a Principal Scientist and Divisional Fellow in the Division of Water, Environment and Forestry Technology in the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and specializes in water quality and water resources management issues. Peter has over 33 years experience in research and environmental consultancy projects in 26 African countries (especially those in southern and central Africa). He has specialist knowledge and expertise in the assessment of water quality problems in Africa and in the design, implementation and evaluation of environmental management programmes.
	Anton Earle is the Deputy Head of the African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU) at the University of Pretoria. His experience includes bringing together various groups involved in water management and water use at the inter-state level in the southern African region. Specialties include facilitating the negotiations between governments and other role-players in international river basins. A key concept he has promoted is "benefit-sharing", moving away from a water-rights based approach and allowing solutions to water scarcity to be sourced outside of the basin scale. An approach towards benefit-sharing is to increase reliance on "virtual water" movements, both within and between regions. He has carried out various studies on the implications of these virtual water movements on the food security, economic development and environmental sustainability for the southern African region with specific reference to the SADC water balance. He is currently investigating the role of models and decision support systems in aiding transparency and stakeholder participation in transboundary water management.
	University of Zimbabwe (Harare, Zimbabwe) Emmanuel Manzungu received his doctoral training in irrigation/water management at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He started off his research career as a government research officer before joining the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe as a research associate where he is currently based. In 2001 he undertook a research on multi-stakeholder platforms in water resource management in southern Africa. In the same year he received a research grant from the Water Research Fund of Southern Africa (WARFSA) to undertake a research entitled "Sustaining agriculture and livelihoods in the Odzi sub-catchment,". Dr. Manzungu has published widely on irrigation./water resource management in Zimbabwe and has much experience in the formation of Catchment Management Associations in Zimbabwe as well as working with River Basin Organizations such as the Orange River Basin Commission (ORASECOM). His technical specialties are Irrigation management, Catchment Management, and Integrated Water Resources Management.
	Pinimidzai Sithole has a broad sociology and social anthropology education background and over 3 years professional experience in project planning, appraisal and rural development. His areas of expertise in sociology and social anthropology include gender education, community training, natural resources management and governance, implementation and appraisal of HIV and AIDS policies, and rural development projects throughout Zimbabwe. He has attained a high profile in organizational development and the facilitation of common vision workshops for rural communities. In addition, Mr. Sithole is an expert in the design of logical frameworks, entrepreneurial skills development, change management, stakeholder analysis and consultation, project planning and team building using Problem Tree Analysis and other facilitation tools. Since 2000, Mr. Sithole has devoted energy in facilitating water policy reform processes, analysing the functions of Catchment and Subcatchment Councils and determining the core business of government institutions and other stakeholders in the natural resources management under liberalised and decentralised economies. Mr. Sithole is as Research Fellow/Project Coordinator by the Centre for Applied Social Sciences Trust (CASS Trust) where he Co-ordinate fieldwork activities and facilitates and implement participatory rural development initiatives in water resources management at the community level. He is also an Associate Consultant for Business Associates P/L. He is fluent in English and Shona, in reading, writing and speaking.
	Innocent Nhapi is a co-ordinator and Lecturer in Wastewater Treatment in the MSc. WREM Programme and supervisor for MSc and BSc Projects. Also working at the WaterNet office as Assistant WaterNet Manager responsible for module development and editing of WaterNet Symposium papers. He received his PhD in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering from UNESCO/IHE DELFT, in The Netherlands. His research interests include transboundary water quality monitoring, Eco-technology research in Africa, catchment water quantity and quality management - currently working on a multi-disciplinary research proposal for the Upper Manyame sub-catchment and the Challenge Programme on Water for Food Production in the Limpopo Trans-boundary catchment..Ecological Sanitation - currently working on a project on ecological sanitation applications and upscaling in rural areas. Published a BSc module for the Zimbabwe Open University on Environmental Pollution and Control, Development of short courses for technical staff in urban and rural district councils - road maintenance, activated sludge systems.
	Australia University of South Australia (Australia) Jennifer McKay is a Professor of Business Law in the School of commerce, Division of Business , University of South Australia. In 2004 she was a finalist in the supervisor of the year award run by the University of South Australai students' Assocaition. Her research interests concern water law reform and in particular regulatory models for the management and allocation of water between competing uses and between competing jurisdictions. She is the Australiasian Rep for the international water law association (www.aida-waterlaw.org). She is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Comparative water laws and Policies, a multidisciplinary group specialising in Water law and Policy evaluation in Australia and international water law. She has undertaken numerous cross jurisdictional comparisons of water laws in India and the Asia Pacific. The Centre has international members from 20 countries including Sweden, Sri lanka, Spain, USA,India, Finland and Israel.
	Europe Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) Olli Varis
	Linköping University (Sweden) Jan Lundqvist is a professor of Geography at the Department of Water and Environmental Studies (DWES), Linkoping university, Sweden, since 1980. His research orientation and expertise are related to various issues converging around land and water resources management, including; the role of water in livelihood from the household to international level; food/nutritional and environmental security; competition for water between urban and rural sectors and between upstream and downstream areas; water productivity; and challenges related to transboundary water utilisation. He has been responsible for research projects on these issues around the world, including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, The Sudan, Egypt, Middle East, Southern Africa, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Norway and Sweden. Current research projects in India and Southern Africa. Dr. Lundqvist also holds a part time assignment at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
	University of Dundee (United Kingdom) Patricia Wouters is the founder and director of the International Water Law Research Institute (IWLRI), at the University of Dundee, in Scotland where she teaches international and national water law and policy for postgraduate students and conducts academic research in this field. Dr. Wouters has served as a consultant to research training programmes in water law around the world, including major international river basins (Aral Sea, Mekong, Nile, Orange, Zambezi). Her research interests include public international law issues (state responsibility, negotiations strategies and dispute avoidance). Dr Wouters is Project Director of a major international Knowledge and Research Project funded by the Department for International Development (UN Government) entitled "Transboundary Water Resources Management: Using the Law to Develop Effective National Water Strategy: "Poverty Eradication through Enforceable Rights to Water", which aims to develop Legal Assessment Model (LAM) that will assist transboundary watercourse States to develop national water policies based on a more clear evaluation of their legal entitlement and obligations regarding their shared freshwaters. The Project is comprised of inter-disciplinary teams (law, economics, hydrology) in three countries - China (upstream), Mozambique (downstream) and Palestine (shared groundwater).
	Sergei Vinogradov is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School at University of Dundee. He joined the Centre as a Senior Research Fellow in April 1996. Before joining the Centre, between 1994 and 1996, he was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). Prior to that he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR (Russian) Academy of Sciences. He also taught international law at the Faculty of Law of the Moscow State University. His main field of expertise includes international environmental law, international law of natural resources, law of the sea, as well as environmental and natural resource law of Russia and the CIS. He is a member of the Water Resources Committee of the International Law Association and of the Commission on Environmental Law of the IUCN/World Conservation Union. At the Centre Dr. Vinogradov teaches courses in international environmental law, international law of natural resources, environmental law and policy for natural resources and energy, and international nuclear law.
	Alistair Rieu-Clarke is a Research Associate at the IWLRI. He has also worked as an external advisor for a number of multinational companies, governments and international organisations on legal and commercial issues in the natural resources sector. His work experience has included reviewing public-private contracts and regulatory legislation for the governments of Estonia, Namibia, Tanzania and South Africa; and advising on the implementation of the Energy Charter Treaty in 13 Central and Eastern European Countries. Recent research includes applications of international water law to the field of sustainable development where he has published as part of the the EU Water Framework Directive.
	Asia Yunnan University (China) Daming He is the Director of the Asian International Rivers Center, deputy director of School of Life Science at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His multi-disciplinary research and teaching background includes hydrology and transboundary water resources management, physical geography and environmental security. Since 1996, his focuses has been on utilization, allocation, and management of water resources, ecosystem change environmental security in international rivers. In 2003, he was awarded leading scientist in ecology and biodiversity conservation, from his work on transboundary ecological security in international river basins in China. His technical specialties include, Physical Geography, Hydrology, Ecology, GIS for natural resources and environments and Regional Sustainable Development. He has worked extensively in the upper basin portions of major Asian international basins including the Mekong, Salween, and Red rivers.
	Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) Ashim Das Gupta is Professor in Water Engineering and Management (WEM) Field of Study of School of Civil Engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok where he has been serving since 1976. He is involved in teaching and research in water resources development and management, in particular on topics related to integrated water resources management, groundwater resources evaluation, modeling and management of water resources systems and environmental impact assessment of water resources projects. Some of the recently completed research work related to various themes of IWRM can be cited as "Integrated Water Resources Management in a Water Abundance-Scarcity Cycle Regime, A Case Study of Bangladesh", "Urban Water Demand Management in Bangkok, Thailand", and "Institutional Analysis of Management Models in Community Irrigation Systems: Northern Vietnam." In addition to teaching and research, he has been actively involved in different sponsored research projects dealing with hydrology and water resources. Some of the significant contributions in the area of sponsored projects can be cited as "Development of a Water Resources Information System for Thailand", "Development and Management Studies of Groundwater Resources in the Bangkok Area", "Study of Potential Development of Water Resources in the Salawin River Basin", "An Integrated Decision Support System for Groundwater Monitoring and Management", and "Crop Modeling with GIS and Genetic Algorithm". Currently he is a Human Resource Development consultant under a Danida assisted capacity building project at the Water Resources University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
	University of Tokyo (Japan) Mikiyasu Nakayama is a Professor of the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research activities on transboundary waters focus on Involvement of international organizations in management of transboundary waters. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo . He served as a programme officer in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) between 1986 and 1989. From 1989 to 1999, he used to teach water resources management and its international and environmental aspects at the Utsunomiya University . He has been also serving as an advisor and an expert for several United Nations Organizations (UNEP, UNCHS, UNCRD, and UNU), as well as for Non-Governmental Organizations such as IUCN and ILEC. From 1994 to 1996, he was "on loan" to the North African Department of the World Bank to deal with water resources management projects in Morocco, Tunisia and Iran. From 1999 to 2004 he served as professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, as well as Vice Dean of the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences. Currently he serves as advisor of a number of domestic and international organisations, including the United Nations University where he is appointed as Academic Advisor to its Environment and Sustainable Development Programme since 2002.
	Latin America Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica) Alexander López Ramirez is the director of the Mesoamerican Center for Sustainable Development of the Dry Tropics (CEMEDE), and a lecturer for the International Center for Political Economy at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. He has conducted extensive field work in the Brazilian Amazon and in Central America in issues related to socio-environmental conflict resolution and the management of transboundary river basins. Currently he is member of the scientific steering comitee of the Global Environmental change and security project (http://www.gechs.org/), and co-director of the initiative: Environment, Development and Sustainable Peace. Bridging the gap between north and south (http://www.sustainable-peace.org/).
	Universidad Nacional de El Litoral (Argentina) Ofelia Clara Tujchneider is the Director of the Geohydrological Research Group (GIG) at the Faculty of Engineering and Hydrological Sciences, Hydrology Department at National University of El Litoral in Argentina. She is also a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research and a member of the Scientific Board of the Geociences Programme at UNESCO, and is the Chairperson of the Working Group 5 in Hydrogeology for 2004-2007. She has been a professor in Groundwater Resources Management at the Faculty of Engineering and Hydrological Sciences since 1973, specializing in environmental and hydrogeological Projects, including transboundary water resources such as the Gurani Aquifer, an international water body.