Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
Members of the TAC - April 2008 - Perugia, Italy / Copyright UNESCO – M. Ravassard
An independent Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has been created to advise on WWAP’s activities. The TAC is composed of eleven members from academia, research institutions, NGOs and public/professional/non-governmental organizations with ex-officio (Chair of UN Water and WWAP Coordinator) members.
The TAC aims, to strengthen the scientific, policy and technical foundations of WWDR and its accompanying publications. To this end, it examines the contents of WWDR in the view of the state of the art, identifies information gaps to be addressed and formulates recommendations for further actions.
TAC Chair & Deputy chair
Mr. Uri Shamir, Chair
Former President of IAHS
Professor Emeritus of Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
Israel
Mr. Dipak Gyawali, Deputy Chair
Former Minister for Water Resources
Head of Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
Nepal
Members:
Ms. Fatma Attia
Head of Groundwater Sector, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
Egypt
Mr. Anders Berntell
Executive Director, Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Sweden
Mr. Elias Fereres
Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IAS-CSIC) and University of Cordoba
Spain
Mr. M. Gopalakrishnan
Secretary General, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
India
Mr. Pete Loucks
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
USA
Mr. Laszlo Somlyody
Section of Engineering Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungary
Mr. Lucio Ubertini
President, Italian IHP Committee
Italy
Mr. Henk van Schaik
Programme Co-ordinator International, Co-operative Programme on Water and Climate
The Netherlands
Mr. Albert Wright
Chairman of the Africa Water Task Force
Ghana
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