PAC Members

Deltares Board IWC

IHE-Delft

ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Barbara is leading the group working on Urban Water Management within the Sustainable Resources, Climate and Resilience team at the European Secretariat of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. Working with and for cities for more than two decades she has managed several European and global projects in the areas of drinking, waste and stormwater management at local level, including with relation to climate change adaptation and resilience, blue-green infrastructure, and nature-based solutions. Throughout her career Barbara helped build the capacity of urban water stakeholders by acting as a broker between science, policy and…

Director capital markets Europe CDP Laurent leads the Investor Engagement team in Europe. Laurent started his career in 1991 working with Bank Indosuez for 10 years. In 2000, he co-founded a start-up incubator and coached entrepreneurs to accelerate their businesses before creating his own consultancy company in Brazil, where he became one of the 300 mentors of the NGO Endeavor. Laurent graduated from the IESE Business School in Barcelona, with an Executive MBA in General Management. He also holds an MA in Economics from the University of Paris Dauphine.

President at the European Youth Parliament for Water Hasmik is a professional in solar energy and environmental management fields. As president of European Youth Parliament for Water (EYPW) she has committed to support young water leaders to pursue their concrete local actions for common water issues at European scale and beyond. She has a specific focus on gender mainstreaming in environmental projects, as well as on development of energy and water policies and regulations. Hasmik holds a MBA from Université de Nantes, France (2012-2013). She was a fellow of the US State Department PFP exchange program at the Oregon State…

RAI Amsterdam With more than a decade of experience in senior management positions in renowned trade show business and management consulting, Annette Bos is a known expert for the development of new business areas, strategic growth as well as restructuring and turnaround management. After Ms. Bos graduated from the University of Utrecht, she joined the Jaarbeurs in 1999. In 2013 she was appointed as Director Water at RAI Amsterdam. As a Director Water she is responsible for the strategic and global development of the Aquatech brand and platforms around the world. This includes Aquatech Amsterdam, Aquatech China, Aquatech Mexico, Aquatech…

Visting professor Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Social Sciences (Economics) Joppe is a pro-active, dedicated, entrepreneurial senior environmental professional/manager. He has both a technological economics (Stirling University) and chemical engineering degree (Delft University )and has a broad international experience, including 25 years at Shell  (Netherlands, Brunei, Oman and the UK) and six years at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Geneva) as Water Director. Over the 25 years at Shell he has been instrumental in improving the environmental and social performance of the company at corporate, operating unit and project level. At the WBCSD he managed a water…

Director Global Water Programme IUCN

VEWIN

Global Leader Resilience & Water Management Arcadis Piet Dircke has 35 years of working experience on five continents in water management, urban resilience, coastal protection, urban waterfront development and climate change adaptation. Piet was Professor in Urban Water Management at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences from 2007 till 2014. Since Hurricane Katrina he is an influential Dutch representative in knowledge exchange on climate resilience with the USA. In the USA he worked on urban resilience projects in New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, Charleston, Miami and Honolulu. In Asia he was or still is…

CEO Dunea drinking water company  

CEO Green City watch

Global Water Intelligence & Leading Utilities of the World Christopher is an authority on water finance and markets. After a degree in politics and economics at Oxford University, he worked as a financial journalist and investment banker, before acquiring Global Water Intelligence in 2002. Over the past five years, he has written and contributed to a number of specialist reports on the water sector, including Municipal Water Reuse Markets 2010, Desalination Market 2010, and Global Water Market 2011. He is also Publisher of the Water Desalination Report, the IDA Worldwide Desalting Plant Inventory and DesalData.

City of Amsterdam to Municipality of Amsterdam

CEO Vitens

Executing director University of Twente, Waterfootprint network Rick Hogeboom, PhD is Executive Director at the Water Footprint Network (WFN), an international non-profit partner and donor organization based in the Netherlands. With WFN, he uses the water footprint concept to promote the transition toward sustainable, fair and efficient use of the world’s fresh water. He is also Assistant Professor Multi-disciplinary Water Management at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, where he developed a special interest in and expertise on matters of global water consumption in relation to scarcity, and potential response options for actors involved, including consumers, businesses, NGOs, governments, and…

Director water & adaptation C40

Head of Institutional Members for EMEA and Latin-America at the World Economic Forum. Pablo engages large multinationals and fast-growing start ups around public-private collaboration focusing on strategic intelligence, technology governance and digital transformation. Previously, he had co-founded and was the CFO of a waste to energy company in Thailand aiming to deal with municipal solid waste, groundwater pollution and poor working conditions of landfill workers. Prior to that, he led the strategy and business development of a construction company in Spain and the US, was also an independent consultant for mining projects in Africa and the Philippines and worked in…

Project manager Valuing Water Implementation Ministery of Foreign Affairs Netherlands, Valuing Water

PGGM Investments Piet Klop leads PGGM’s company and market engagement efforts around water scarcity. He is also working on ESG integration in listed equity and in the strategic asset allocation, and on developing PGGM’s “investing in solutions” portfolios. Before joining PGGM Investments in July 2011, Piet held senior positions at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the private sector. As water resources expert he worked at the World Bank and United Nations. Piet holds master’s degrees in Water Resources Management (Wageningen University, 1989) and Applied Environmental Economics (University of London,…

Municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark

Chair professor in Environmental Biotechnology  Delft University of Technology Mark van Loosdrecht is Professor in Environmental Biotechnology at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He graduated (MSc/PhD) from Wageningen University. His PhD research was a combination of Microbiology and Colloid Chemistry. He was appointed at Delft in 1988 and became Full Professor in 1999. His research is characterized by the combination of scientific understanding of complex systems and development of new processes. Dr. van Loosdrecht’s scientific interests are mainly related to biofilm processes, nutrient conversion processes and the role of storage polymers in microbial ecology. In particular, he is interested…

Director quality of life EU commission

Head of Water management Division European Investment Bank (EIB)  

Executive director Water Europe

Resilient Officer Municipality of Rotterdam After attending the University of Utrecht, graduating in Physical Geography, Arnoud started his career with several ambitious trainee posts and jobs in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands. As deputy head of the Rotterdam Water Management Department, he was responsible for Rotterdam’s urban water management and the Waterplan2. In 2008 he was appointed Manager of the ambitious Rotterdam Climate Proof program. In this context he initiated the international Connecting Delta Cities network as part of the C40, became regional coordinator within the Dutch research program Knowledge for Climate and was responsible for the design (2013)…

Future Water Leaders AIWW Ambassador 2019 Chrysoula Papacharalampou has a diverse academic research background and holds a PhD in Integrated Water Resources Engineering from the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her passion for water challenges and cultural identities has motivated her to become a Programme Officer for the Wetskills Foundation and the Future Water Leaders Ambassador of the Amsterdam International Water Week 2019. She has created the 'Water Identity' concept, as a tool to improve communication and international collaborative actions in the water sector.

Chairman of dutch water authority Rijn and IJssel Hein Pieper is chairman of dutch water authority Rijn and IJssel and board member of the Association of Dutch Water Authorities. Regional water management in the Netherlands is largely the responsibility of the regional water authorities. The regional water authorities are experts on water level management, water quality management, adapting to climate change, dredging, and wastewater treatment. In international perspective, Dutch Water Authorities builds long term partnerships with organisations for regional water governance. The aim is to be a sparring partner; reciprocity and respect for each other’s context is key. Pieper has…

Wetsus Board IWC

Technical Universsity Delft Board IWC Luuk Rietveld is professor of Drinking Water & Urban Water Cycle Technology since 2010. He is also Chairman of the Department of Water Management at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The research activities focus on integration and innovation in the Urban Water Cycle and Drinking Water supply. Therefore fundamental knowledge of the processes is obtained to be able to explain the behaviour of the processes and anticipate on changes and disturbances. The research has been funded by national and international agencies in over 20 projects. Special interests: water quality and treatment, wastewater reclamation, water…

Professor environmental technology Wageningen University & Research Board IWC

NX Filtration/IWC

CEO KWR Water Research Institute Professor Dragan Savić FREng joined KWR Water Research Institute in the Netherlands as CEO on July 1 2018. Before joining KWR he was Director – and co-founder – of the Centre for Water Systems in Exeter, an internationally recognised group for excellence in water and environmental science research. Dragan Savić was the first Professor of Hydroinformatics in the UK having held this post University of Exeter since 2001. His research interests cover the interdisciplinary field of Hydro-Informatics, which transcends traditional boundaries of water/environmental sciences, informatics/computer science (including Artificial Intelligence, data mining and optimisation techniques) and…

CEO Berliner Wasserbetriebe since 11/1999 Berliner Wasserbetriebe, public-law cooperation Chairman of the Executive Board 03/1999 to 10/1999 Compagnie Générale des Eaux Deutschland IIc., Berlin, Member oft the Management Team 1996 – 1999 OEWA Wasser und Abwasser IIc. Managing Director 1996 VEBA Kraftwerke Ruhr plc, Strategic Planning and Controlling 1992 Energy Management Officer 1990 – 1991 RWTH Aachen Research Assistant for the Heat Conversion Faculty Engineering Diploma, RWTH Technical University Aachen Industrial Engineering Diploma, RWTH Aachen

Scientific director A'dam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) / Delft University of Technology Arjan van Timmeren (The Netherlands, 1969) is full professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Urbanism, chair ‘Environmental Technology & Design’. Besides of this he is also Scientific Director of the joint initiative by TUD (Delft), MIT (Boston) and WUR (Wageningen) ‘AMS Institute’ (Institute for ‘Advanced Metropolitan Solutions’), located in Amsterdam. Over the years his work has focused on the integration of the concept of sustainable development in the field of architecture, urbanism and building technology…

Accenture Henk Jan leads the Dutch water utility sector and manages the global Accenture water community of practice. Experiences Henk Jan gained throughout his Accenture career involve project management, process analysis and improvement, management information / enterprise performance management, utility solutions, application delivery and outsourcing, smart metering. Henk Jan integrates sustainability and stewardship in all activities, undertook a life changing VSO placement on natural resource management in the Philippines (sharing skills, changing lives / skills to succeed) and actively participates in corporate social responsibility activities.

CEO IWA Internationally recognised water resource management expert, Kala Vairavamoorthy, has been appointed Executive Director of the International Water Association (IWA). He takes up his position on 25 September 2017, and will be based in the IWA’s Global Operations Office in The Hague, Netherlands. Read more

Technical University Delft Chair board IWC Prof. Jan Peter van der Hoek (1959, The Netherlands) is Chief Innovation Officer at Waternet, the water utility of Amsterdam and surroundings. He holds the chair Drinking Water Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He is Principle Investigator at AMS, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, a joint initiative by TUD (Delft), MIT (Boston) and WUR (Wageningen). He is a member of Committee-1 of EurEau, the European Federation of National Associations of Water Services. He is chair of the Joint Research Programme of the Dutch drinking water companies (KWR research programme), and chair…

Board IWC University of Amsterdam

CEO Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation Dr. Patrick Verkooijen has joined the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) on September 10, 2018 as CEO. He is recognized globally for mobilizing stakeholders and delivering scaled up actions that address climate change. Before his appointment to the GCA, he served as Climate Adviser and Special Representative for Climate Change at the World Bank Group supporting President Jim Yong Kim and the World Bank Climate Leaders – Mr. Annan, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Ms. Christiana Figueres and Mr. Feike Sijbesma – in external engagement aimed at enhanced climate action. Read more

Professor & head of LabMET-Faculty of Vbioscience Engineering Ghent University Emeritus Professor Willy Verstraete was professor and head of the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET) at Gent University, Belgium for over 30 years. Over this time he has mentored innumerable postgraduate students and staff, and he continues to be influential in science and engineering at an international scale. Willy’s research has focused on microbial resource management i.e., the design, operation and control of processes mediated by mixed microbial cultures in drinking water production, aerobic wastewater treatment, anaerobic digestion of wastewaters and sludges, solid state fermentation of organic residues,…

Director Water World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Tom is Director for Water for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), leading the Council’s member engagement, strategic and project work on water. Tom has a background in public health sciences and is committed to contributing to social and environmental development. He was previously Programmes Director at the International Water Association (IWA) – the largest global network of water professionals - addressing and responding to some of the significant challenges we face in managing the water cycle. Tom has worked in both developed and developing countries, with experience collaborating…