Jasper is a hydraulic engineer with a keen interest in interactions between hydrodynamics, morphology and biology in all kinds of environments. For his MSc-thesis at Delft University of Technology (TUD), he combined fieldwork and numerical modelling to study the effect of riparian vegetation on the development of the Volga River, Russia. During his PhD-candidacy at the same university, he shifted his focus towards estuaries and coasts and got more involved in ecology while working with Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) and NIOZ.

Keizrul is the Chairperson of the Malaysia Office of Wetlands International and a member of the Global Management Board of Wetlands International. He is also a Senior Advisor of NARBO (Network of Asian River Basin Organisations). Keizrul has been involved in the field of water and environment for the past 4 decades.

He started his career in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia where over an illustrious career, he rose to become the Director General in 1997 until his retirement from public service eleven years later.

Nanco Dolman is leading professional in Water Resilient Cities at Royal HaskoningDHV, with a MSc in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology (1998) and a BLA in landscape architecture from Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (2008).

From 2011 to 2016 Nanco was part time lecturer Adaptive Urban Development at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. He served as a Resilient Cities advocate for UNDRR (2015-2020), and is editor for IWA’s Journal of Water & Climate Change (2020 to date).

Neslihan leads Stantec’s international business development activities in IFI business focusing Central Asia, Turkey, Balkans and MENA region where she is responsible for strategy planning to increase the company’s business in water, wastewater, infrastructure, environmental and energy sectors. To accomplish this, she focuses on technical assistance opportunities with IFI clients such as the European Commission, EBRD, WB, ADB and other IFIs in the region. She reaches out water and public utilities in developing countries to provide sustainable water solutions through IFI projects.

Riad Imam Mahmud is Country Director Max Foundation Bangladesh since 2012, and the Co-founder Managing Director of Max Social Enterprise, a spin-off piped water business, since 2019. He has led the organization to reach 3 million people, with significant impact on reduction of child stunting (from 51 to 25% between 2016-2021) through Max Foundation’s signature Healthy Village approach, the program he innovated in 2015.

Alma has over 30 years of experience managing Water Supply and Sanitation Programs and PPP Programs involving urban infrastructure, including seven years as Chief of Party for the USAID Philippine Water Revolving Fund Project and Follow-on Program, and three years of the current Safe Water Project.

Ryo is Senior Manager in charge of business development at Life Business Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation. Since joining Yokogawa in 2016, he has led various business development projects that apply Yokogawa’s innovative technologies to customers’ potential business issues embedded in their work processes. 

Amit serves as the Vice President, Marketing at Vassar Labs. With his 14+ years of technology experience, he believes in working for a sustainable future. He has done a PG Course from University of Florida on Sustainable Agriculture and Land Management. Apart from that he has a degree in Mathematics and an MBA specializing in Data Science.