Development Aspects Impressum Editors

Sewilam, Hani

UNW-DPC

Dr. Hani Sewilam joined the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Develop- ment as Programme Officer in 2010. Previously he worked at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, from 2002 to 2010 as a Deputy Director for the Department of Engineering Hydrology. He has managed many international capacity-building projects in 12 countries. In 2008, he established the first North African Regional Center of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development (RCE Cairo). Dr Sewilam has also worked for the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Ir- rigation as a coordinator for development projects with several UN organisations.

Smith, Mark

IUCN

Dr. Mark Smith is the Director of the IUCN Global Water Programme. He leads IUCN’s work on water, environment and development at global level and provides strategic leadership for IUCN on water policy in major international forums.

Prior to joining IUCN in April 2006, he was a scientist with areas of specialisation in agriculture, forestry and hydrology. Between 1991 and 2000, his work focused pri- marily on agroforestry, first in the Sahel in West Africa, with the University of Edin- burgh, then in Kenya, while working at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. From 2001 to 2004, he was leader of the interdisciplinary Livelihoods and En- vironment research group at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Australia, which applied integrated social, economic and ecological tools to support sustainable development in tropical river catchments. Mark was author of the book “Just One Planet: Poverty, Justice and Climate Change”. He holds an undergraduate degree in agriculture, Masters in climatology and a PhD in Ecology.

Zakaria, Salmah

UN ESCAP

Dr. Salmah Zakaria is an Economic Affairs Officer at the Energy Security and Water Resources Section of EDD, ESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand. She retired from Malaysian government services after more than 30years and after holding various positions

including Director of River Engineering, Director of Corporate Development in the Dept. of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia as well as Director General of NAHRIM. She is a qualified civil engineer and has a post-graduate diploma in Hydraulics from IHE, the Netherlands, an MSc in “Land Drainage” and a PhD in “Water Manage- ment in Deep Peat soils in Malaysia” from Silsoe College, Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK. Her areas of interest include agriculture and peat water manage- ment, IWRM, IRBM, urban floods and climate change adaptation.