Dr Anthony Turton is a political scientist with 24 years of strategic-level experience. He has specialized in transboundary water resource management. Currently he is focusing on water and the mining industry as a subnational transboundary issue of strategic significance in a water-constrained region with a strong mining economy.

He is a founding member of the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters (UPTW) and the former President. He was the alternative representative of the CSIR on the Board of Governors of the World Water Council (WWC); was an Executive Director of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) (2007-2009) and is the current Vice President (2010-2012); served on the scientific committee of UNESCO IHP 6 and is a Professor at the University of Free State Centre for Environmental Management. He serves as an Editor of Water Policy (the official journal of the WWC); Water International (the official journal of the IWRA); and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Water Resources Development; Water Alternatives; and Springer-Verlag, a German-based text-book publisher; and the International Journal of Water Governance. He is the Founding Trustee of the Water Stewardship Council Trust and is the Chairman of the Camissa Trust.

Dr. Daniel Haines is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London. His doctoral research, entitled 'The state and Irrigation: the construction of barrage dams in twentieth-century Sindh, Pakistan', investigates the planning, construction and effects of three major irrigation projects in Sindh. His research contends that the irrigation projects in both colonial and postcolonial Sindh were used to extend state’s power down to the grass root level enabling it to exercise more control over the politics and economy of the region. He is presently working on a project “Rivers divided: the Partition of South Asia and water politics in India and Pakistan” funded by British Academy.

Dr. Mustafa is the Senior Lecturer in Environment, Politics, and Development in the Department of Geography at King’s College, London. He has previously served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at George Mason University and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of South Florida. Dr. Mustafa has published numerous articles based on his field research for the management of natural resources in Pakistan. He obtained his B.A. in Geography from Middlebury College, Vermont, his M.A. in Geography from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Danish is presently working on his book which studies Karez system of water harvestig in Blochistan province of Pakistan. Dr. Danish Mustafa has raised certain pertinent issues concerning sustainability and management of water resources in Pakistan. His critical outlook with focus on environmental sustainability allows him to question the wisdom of colonial and postcolonial irrigation projects in Pakistan.

David Gilmartin is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His publications include Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan (1988). His research on colonial and postcolonial South Asia is extensive, ranging from evolution of election laws in India to the questions of identity and partition. His work on colonial irrigation and its linkages with the process of identity formation, settlement and political dynamics of the agrarian society in the Punjab is of seminal importance. He has discussed the issues of imperial imperatives of canal building and its social, political and economic impacts on the society made to settle in the interfluves of the rivers of the Punjab. His work also touches upon the issue of construction of Indian society in the colonial discourse and raises certain pertinent questions.

Giovanna Gioli is working as Research Fellow with research group Climate Change and Security at the Institute for Geography, Hamburg University. She  studied Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy, (MA), Political Science at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, (MSc “European Studies” (focus on International Migration), and earned a Ph.D in “Philosophy and Anthropology” at the University of Parma, Italy.

She is currently collaborating with Prof. Jürgen Scheffran on the research project “Climate Change and Migration: Adaptation strategies and Gender in the Himalayan Region”, which focuses on Pakistan (phase 1), and Nepal (phase 2). The project is aimed at assessing the role played by migrant networks and ties in building the response of local communities to environmental pressure, via remittances, development projects, transfer of knowledge and technology. A special attention will be attached to how the nexus climate change-migration-adaptation is changing or affecting gendered relations, and how it could boost women’s empowerment and gender equality.

Dr. Ijaz Hussain is presently working as Meritorious Professor at National Institute of Pakistan Studies. With a doctorate degree in Public Law from University of Nice, France, he has specialized in International Law and in this connection has published a number of research articles in national and international journals. Dr. Hussain, has had a close look at India-Pakistan relations in connection with Kashmir particularly. He looks at Indus Basin Water Treaty as an instrument of International Law under severe pressure. His analysis of the Treaty discovers the reasons behind Indian consideration of the Treaty as outmoded. His analysis of the treaty discusses the challenges faced by Indus Basin Water Treaty in the changed socio-demographical realities of the region.

Dr. Joe Hill is a Senior Researcher at Centre for Development Research, Department of Political and Cultural Change, University of Bonn, Germany. Dr. Hill has done his BSc. (Hon.) in Environmental Chemistry and MSc. in Catchment Dynamics and Management from Leeds University, UK. His PhD research focused on small scale irrigation in Jharkhund, India. He received his doctorate degree from University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests include politics and social effects of irrigation system management and development, access to water, property rights over land and water, institutional arrangements, rural livelihoods, agriculture and food security. He is presently working on the BMBF-funded ‘Crossroads Asia: Conflict-Migration-Development’ research programme, on work package E3.2 ‘Hill irrigation across the Alai-Pamir-Karakorum-Himalaya’.

Majed Akhtar is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Geography at the University of Arizona, USA. He has been teaching History, Political Economy of Punjab and Pakistan Studies at Beaconhouse National University. At the University of Arizona, Mr. Akhtar has been teaching courses on Political Geography (Fall 2011), Population Geography (Summer 2011) and Geopolitics of South Asia (Spring 2011). Mr. Akhtar has conducted research on Optimization of Dual Conjunctive Water Supply and Reuse Systems as Graduate Research Associate at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona (2009-2010). He has also contributed conference papers on Understanding the Contradictions of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 (October 2011), The Engineer as Law: Water and Expertise in Pakistan (May 2011), States and Rivers: A historical – geographical analysis of the Indus waterscape (April 2010) and Hydraulic infrastructure of the Indus waterscape: A historical – geographical perspective (March 2010).

Dr. Neda Zawahri has done her Ph.D. from University of Virginia. She is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Cleveland State University. Her research interest include examination of the management of international river disputes, the role of international institutions in facilitating cooperation, environmental security, and the potential for conflict and cooperation between adversaries. Professor Zawahri has conducted extensive field research in the Indus Basin. She particularly examines the resilience of Indus Water Treaty as water sharing and conflict resolution mechanism between India and Pakistan. Apart from her work on the Indus Basin, she has also studied the conflict and cooperation along Tigris, Yarmouk and Euphrates.

Dr. Rohan D’Souza is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy. He was awarded his PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood control in Eastern India (1803-1946), Oxford University Press, 2006. His edited books include The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and subversive essays (Orient BlackSwan: Hyderabad, 2012). His interests and research publications cover themes in environmental history, conservation, ecological politics, sustainable development and modern technology. Rohan D’Souza has held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University ( Agrarian Studies Program) and University of California, Berkeley (the Ciriacy-Wantrup fellow ). He was also a senior research associate at the Centre for World Environmental History (University of Sussex) and visiting fellow at the Resources Management Asia-Pacific (Australian National University). He was recently awarded the Short Term Chair at the University of Tokyo ( Japan) as Visiting Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (2012).

Dr. Zafar Adeel has experience in a variety of water and environmental issues, including monitoring and control of water pollution, water management in dry areas, solutions to industrial environmental problems, modeling of environmental systems and environmental policy formulation. He is also keenly involved in development of and liaison with international networks of water experts. He serves as Director at UNU-INWEH, where he has the overall responsibility for the direction, organization, administration and programmes of the institute. Dr. Adeel is an environmental engineer with post-graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Iowa State University.

Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah is Researcher at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Mr. Shah joined IWMI in November 2011. Since then he has established a reputation of an expert in aforementioned field. Apart from his Job, Mr Shah is a doctoral candidate and research fellow at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is working in the areas of Strategy and Organization studies at Suleman Dawood School of Business. His research interests include organizational theory, Power, natural disasters, water and climate issues. Mr. Shah is interested broadly in the relationship between natural calamities and their eventual transformation into huge disasters. He espouses power and organizational theories for his analysis of disaster research

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Apart from his doctoral research, Azeem is actively involved in research on mapping water and flood management practices/disputes both at national and transnational levels in a number of research projects.

Azeem is a member of the Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization studies (APROS), reviewer of Academy of Management (AOM) and Asian Journal of Management cases (AJMC). He has presented his research work in international conferences in Thailand and India.

Dr. Romila P. Verma teaches water resources and hydrology in the Department of Geography,  University of Toronto and is a Research Affiliate with the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University.

Her fields of specialization are in the integrated watershed management, climate change impact modeling and environmental education. Growing up in India, her research interests have been shaped by the limited resources and its impact on people who are marginalized from sharing the scarce resources. She is not only passionate about understanding the complex dynamics between people and their natural environments but believes strongly in finding sustainable solutions to resource sharing.

She has developed strong Canadian and international research and teaching credentials over the past 20 years.  She has worked on a diverse range of topics including Ontario’s source water protection plan, impact of weather variables on municipal water use, identifying the indicators of environmental change in Lake Simcoe watershed and monitoring and forecasting of hydrological parameters in the Mahanadi river basin in eastern India. She has also used here research as a tool to engage communities and to affect environmental policies. Her current research interest is on transboundary water conflict management, drip irrigation and rain water harvesting for agricultural efficiency in developing countries.

Dr. Douglas Hill is a Senior Lecture in Development Studies, Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand.  He joined the University of Otago in 2006. He was educated at Australian National University and Curtin University.

Most of Dr. Hill’s teaching and research is concerned with India where he has conducted intensive fieldwork for more than a decade, although he also has research interests in Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia and Bangladesh. His current work is primarily concerned with Trans-boundary Water Resources in South Asia.

Dr. Lydia Powell has been with the ORF Centre for Resources Management for over ten years working on policy issues in Energy and Climate Change.  She edits the ORF Energy News Monitor which is in its eight year of publication and routinely contributes articles on Energy Policy, Energy Pricing and Regulation, Climate and Equity.  Her current interests include Energy Poverty, Energy Security, Energy Security Index for India, Resource Based conflict with particular reference to Energy and Water, Commercially viable Renewable Energy Pricing Policies and Pricing & Regulatory Issues in Nuclear Energy.  She gained industry experience working for Norsk Hydro ASA, Norway’s largest industrial enterprise with core interest in fertilizers, oil & gas and aluminium and for Orkla, one of Norway’s largest listed conglomerates whose interests include solar energy and hydro power.  Ms. Powell has three Post Graduate Degrees - two from Norway on Energy and one in Solid State Physics from India.

DR. ROBERT G. WIRSING is a Professor at the School of Foreign Service at Qatar (SFS-Q), Georgetown University. Earlier he was a member of the faculty of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii (2000-2008) and of the Department of Government & International Studies, University of South Carolina (1971-2000). A specialist on South Asian politics and international relations, he has made over forty research trips to the South Asian region since 1965. His publications include: Pakistan’s Security Under Zia, 1977-1988 (St. Martin’s Press, 1991); India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute (St. Martin’s Press, 1994); Kashmir in the Shadow of War (M. E. Sharpe, 2002); Religious Radicalism & Security in South Asia, co-editor (Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2004); Ethnic Diasporas & Great Power Strategies in Asia, co-editor (India Research Press, 2007); Baloch Nationalism and the Geopolitics of Energy Resources: The Changing Context of Separatism in Pakistan (Carlisle: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, April 2008); and Fixing Fractured Nations: The Challenge of Ethnic Separatism in the Asia-Pacific, co-editor and co-author (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010). His most recent research focuses primarily on the politics and diplomacy of river resources. His latest (co-authored) book is International River Rivalry in Himalayan Asia (Palgrave/Macmillan, in press).