List of Contributors

Shaddad Attili holds a doctorate in science and industrial technology, is a former Palestinian Water Minister, and is currently Head of the Negotiation Support Unit in Palestine.

Alice Aureli is the Vice President of the International Water Resources Association and former Chief of the Groundwater Resources and Water Cooperation Section of UNESCO’s Division of Water Sciences.

Ram Aviram, Ambassador, specializes in hydro-diplomacy and has over 35 years of multilateral and bilateral diplomacy both in official positions and as a consultant and is currently lecturing at Athens University and publishing academic papers on hydro-diplomacy.

Raksha Balakrishna is a PhD candidate in the School of Sustainability and the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment at Arizona State University, USA.

Thomas Birkland is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University, USA.

Renata Bolotova is an Investment Associate specializing in Real Assets and Sustainable Investing at the New York State Insurance Fund, who previously served as a Research Assistant at Tufts University’s Shared Waters Lab while completing her business degree.

Christian Bréthaut is Professor of Water Governance at the Department of Geography and Environment of University of Geneva (Switzerland), serves as Director of the Environmental Governance and Territorial Development hub, and co-leads the UNESCO Chair on hydropolitics.

Burcu Çallı is an expert specializing in water politics and diplomacy at the Turkish Water Institute (SUEN), Türkiye.

Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Water Security and Cooperation.

Ana Elisa Cascão is currently an Independent Consultant and Researcher working in the field of Water Diplomacy.

Enamul Choudhury is currently a faculty in the School of Social Science and International Studies at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, where he teaches in the MPA and Criminal Justice Programs.

Austin Corona is a journalist and writer in Colorado, USA, where he focuses much of his work on water politics and governance.

Zodwa Dlamini is an independent consultant and former South Africa’s Chief Delegate and Permanent Representative on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in Lesotho.

Jan Eliasson is a former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and a longtime advocate for a water-secure, sustainable, and peaceful world.

Mohd Faizee is a lecturer/ researcher at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and former senior diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.

Animesh K. Gain is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management and Policy at the School of Environmental and Conservation Science, Murdoch University, Australia.

Stanley Grant is the Nick Prillaman Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and Director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory in Northern Virginia, USA.

Francesca Greco is the former water and gender officer at the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme, and she is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Bergamo.

Juho Haapala is a researcher affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and a consultant working on water and development issues.

Adina Halevi is Environmental Specialist researching Transboundary Water Management and Environmental Conflict Resolution with an M.Sc. environmental science and policy.

Piet Heyns is the former Director-General of Namibia’s Department of Water Affairs.

Lina Hillert is Project Associate for Environmental Peacemaking at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD).

Anna Huovila works as a career diplomat at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was, at the time of writing the chapter, based at the ministry’s Centre for Peace Mediation.

Shafiqul Islam is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Water Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Director of the Water Diplomacy Program at Tufts University, USA.

Sogol Jafarzadeh is the UN and Government Relations Coordinator at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).

Hassan Janabi is a former minister of Water Resources in Iraq and former Iraqi ambassador to Turkey, Japan, and UN Agencies in Rome.

Marco A. Janssen is Professor in the School of Sustainability and Director of the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment at Arizona State University, USA.

W. Todd Jarvis works at the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, one of the 54 Water Resources Research Institutes distributed across the United States and US territories that are funded by the US Geological Survey.

Tadesse Kebebew is a Project Manager at the Geneva Water Hub, a joint center of the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Marko Keskinen is an associate professor in water resources management and policy at Aalto University, Finland.

Kyungmee Kim is Associate Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Swedish Defence University and Associate Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Martina Klimes is Senior Manager and Advisor on Climate, Water, and Peace at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and the International Centre for Water Cooperation (ICWC), serves on the Scientific Programme Committee for World Water Week (2019–2025), holds a PhD in International Relations, and has more than 15 years of experience in dialogue facilitation and political-security analysis across diverse contexts worldwide.

Catherine Knox is a PhD candidate in the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering program at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA.

Elizabeth A. Koch is the Principal of Bridging Waters Advisory and the Process Support Team Lead for the Women in Water Diplomacy Network.

Dejan Komatina is a hydraulic engineer with 34 years of work experience in the fields of environment and water as a university teacher, scientist, professional engineer, and manager.

Sebastian Kratzer works at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), where he leads the organization’s Environmental Peacemaking work.

Melissa Landman is joint M.S. Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Urban and Environmental Planning at Tufts University, USA.

Rhett B. Larson is the Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and Senior Research Fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy.

Nang Won Lee is a research associate in social sciences at Chiang Mai University.

Paolo Lembo is a former UN Official.

Clive Lipchin directs the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies’ Center for Transboundary Water Management, an institution recognized for its innovative work in cross-border water management and cooperation.

Tobias von Lossow is Research Fellow at Clingendael – The Netherlands Institute of International Relations and an affiliate at IHE Delft.

Kaveh Madani is the Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and Research Professor at the City University of New York’s Remote Sensing Earth Systems Institute (CUNY CREST).

Tuğba Evrim Maden is Policy Development Coordinator at the Turkish Water Institute (SUEN), Türkiye, Management Committee Member of Blue Peace Middle East, and specializes in hydropolitics, water diplomacy, and transboundary water issues.

Sharon B. Megdal is Director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as Professor of Environmental Science, C.W. & Modene Neely Endowed Professor, and Distinguished Outreach Professor.

Karen Meijer was a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute at the time of writing and is currently Coordinating Policy Officer for International Climate Adaptation with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Richard Meissner is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa.

Marc F. Müller is a senior scientist at Eawag – the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology – where he heads the research group on coupled human-water systems, and an Associate Research Professor in Water Security and Conflicts at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).

Michèle C. Müller-Itten is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of St Gallen (Switzerland).

Bhanu Neupane is the Process Coordinator for the World Water Assessment Programme at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Saule Ospanova is Senior Environmental Affairs Adviser at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

M. Alexander Pearl is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and Professor of Law and the Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law at the University of Oklahoma.

Tobias Petrelius is currently serving as the Senior Coordinator at the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA).

Rezaur Rahman is a former Professor at the Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM) of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Antti Rautavaara is Special Envoy for Water at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, with long-term experience working on water diplomacy and transboundary water issues.

Megan Rippy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and leads the Ecosystem Services Lab, a multidisciplinary team focused on coupled human– natural systems in the urban environment.

Ben Roston received his PhD from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Engineering in Policy (STEP) program, as well as a Disaster Resilience and Risk Management fellowship at Virginia Tech, USA.

Kristin Rowles is an independent consultant who focuses on facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and water resources planning in the Eastern U.S.

Léna Salamé is an international lawyer specialized in water and diplomacy.

Jalil Salimi is a researcher in the field of water governance who holds a Ph.D. in futures studies from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Aaron Salzberg is Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and served as the first Special Coordinator for Water Resources at the US Department of State.

Todd Schenk is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, Chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning (UEPP) program, and Director of the Science, Technology, and Engineering in Policy (STEP) program at Virginia Tech, USA.

Susanne Schmeier is a Professor of Water Cooperation, Law and Diplomacy at IHE Delft – Institute for Water Education and Utrecht University.

Kerry Schneider is a program manager for the Shared Water Partnership at the Stockholm International Water Institute, a multi-stakeholder platform aimed at advancing cooperation over shared water resources in regions where political tensions could be a source of conflict.

Lynette de Silva is a Senior Instructor in the Geography Department at Oregon State University, USA, and serves as Director of the Certificate Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation.

Kevin M. Smith is a PhD candidate in environmental and water resources engineering at Tufts University, USA, investigating how adaptive institutions and infrastructure can improve environmental governance and management outcomes by facilitating and incentivizing interjurisdictional collaboration.

Suvi Sojamo is a Principal Researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute Syke.

Charlotta Sparre is the Deputy Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), board member of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Lund University and of the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC) at Uppsala University, and is former Director of the Swedish Dialogue Institute for the Middle East and North Africa and former Ambassador of Sweden to Jordan and to Egypt.

Otto Spijkers is assistant professor of international and European law at Leiden University College (LUC), Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University.

Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-founder and Vice-Chair, Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School; and Founder, Consensus Building Institute.

Virginia Lee Tice is a lawyer working mostly in the Middle East and Africa at the crossroads of water resource management and environmental protection.

Mara Tignino is Senior International Law Specialist at the Geneva Water Hub and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva.

Julian Tucker is the Associate Program Officer for the Electoral Processes Programme at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

Scott W. Tyler is Professor (Emeritus) of Hydrology in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

Bruno Verdini is Senior Lecturer in Negotiation, Communication, and Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Environmental Policy and Planning Group (DUSP) and Sloan School of Management Global Programs, and the Visiting Professor in Government and Corporate Diplomacy at the Asia School of Business.

Karen G. Villholth is the Director of Water Cycle Innovation and a consultant to UNESCO and the World Bank.

Jeroen Warner is Associate Professor in Disaster Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Kevin G. Wheeler is Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford and Principal of Water Balance Consulting.

Shawn J. Wheelock is a US Forest Service hydrogeologist at Lassen National Forest, California, USA.

Luke Wilson is Co-Founder and Deputy Director of The Center for Water Security and Cooperation.

Aaron T. Wolf is Professor of Geography at Oregon State University, USA, with an appointment as Professor of Water Diplomacy at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands, and directs the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation.

Jo-Ansie van Wyk is Research Professor in International Politics at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Yumiko Yasuda is an independent consultant and researcher on water and environmental governance who, at the time of writing the chapter, was the Senior IWRM and Transboundary Water Cooperation Specialist at the Global Water Partnership, and is currently a visiting researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and an Affiliate of the Wuhan International Water Law Academy.

Mahdi Zarghami is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Governance, University of Tehran, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Iran Water Resources Research Journal.

Eva Ziedan is a cultural heritage and community development expert, leading projects that use heritage as a tool for dialogue, mediation, and peacebuilding in crisis-affected areas.

Dinara Ziganshina is the Director of the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination in Central Asia and Associate Professor at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.