Participants
- Soraya Rodríguez, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Government of Spain
- Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, Chairman Capital Development Authority, Mayor of Islamabad, Pakistan
Mr. Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, a senior and seasoned (Grade-22) Officer of District Management Group (DMG) took over the challenging task of managing the Capital Development Authority (CDA) as its 25th Chairman on June 24, 2009. Hailing from a reputed businessmen family, Mr. Imtiaz Inayat Elahi is foreign qualified, having degrees in Political Science and Community Economic Development from USA. His father, Mr. Inayat Elahi Khan was a Senior Judge of Peshawar High Court.
His previous stint with the Capital Development Authority as Director General (Environment) saw a phenomenal growth in development and beautification of the Federal Capital, Islamabad. His important initiatives include development of Melody Food Park, establishment of Flower Markets, Widening and beautification of round-abouts, improvement of Parks, laying of walking and jogging tracks, landscaping of various spots, inception of the culture of Open Katcheries, introduction of uniforms for Sanitation workers and gardeners and initiating public-private partnership for development and beautification of the city as well as preserving the green character of Islamabad.
As Chairman CDA, Mr. Imtiaz Inayat Elahi’s top priorities include projects on development of the sectors, which have been neglected in the past, water conservation, rain water harvesting, improvement of environment, provision of efficient public transport, opening of new residential sectors and bring in transparency and good governance. Mr. Imtiaz Inayat Elahi was serving as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment before joining the position of Chairman, Capital Development Authority. He has also served as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health, Joint Secretary, Prime Minister’s Secretariat. He twice remained as Deputy Commissioner, Islamabad Capital Territory from 1989 to 1992 and 1996 to 1997. His prominent previous assignments also include Commercial Councilor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1992 to 1994).
- Asadullo Gulomov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan
- Rahmatullo Tavarov, Vicealcalde de Dushanbé
- Peter P. Rogers, Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning, Harvard University
Prof. Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership, recipient of Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fellowships.
His research interests include:
- the consequences of population on natural resources development
- conflict resolution in international river basins
- improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment, with emphasis on the use of analytic optimizing methods to incorporate both
- the natural phenomena and the engineering controls
- the impacts of global change on water resources, and the development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development
- Interaction of land use planning and central management
He has carried out extensive field and model studies on population, water and energy resources, and environmental problems in Costa Rica, Pakistan, India, China, the Philippines, Bangladesh and, to a lesser extent, in 25 other countries. His most recent work has focused on the relationship between Chinese electric power developments and their impact on global warming.
- Suzanne Odgen, profesora de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Brown e investigadora asociada del Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies de la Universidad de Harvard
- Arjun Thapan, President’s Special Senior Advisor for Infrastructure and Water, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Arjun Thapan, ADB's Special Senior Adviser for Infrastructure and Water gestures during an interview with Reuters at the ADB headquarters in Manila. Mr. Thapan headed SERD, spearheading its work on social and economic development in the Southeast Asia region. He also managed an evolving and complex subregional economic cooperation program in the Greater Mekong Subregion and supports the Water Community of Practice of ADB. The Southeast Asia Department covers Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Viet Nam, and Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Chair of the World Economic Forum on Water Security
- Roberto Martín-Hurtado, Economist, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- Dominique Demessence, Business Development Director, AGBAR
- Mominur Rashid Amin, Private Secretary to Honorable Mayor, Chittagong City Corporation, Bangladesh
- Georgy Petrov, Head of Hydropower Laboraty at the Institute for Water Problems Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan
- Viktor Dukhovny, director del Centro de Información Científica de la Comisión Interestatal para la Coordinación del Agua en Uzbekistán
Professor Victor Abramovich Dukhovny, the Director of the Scientific Information Centre of Interstate Coordination Water Commission. His activity during the Soviet period is well known among CIS countries, especially in Central Asia, in the sphere of water resources management, land reclamation, integrated irrigation and land development method. Being one of the participants and managers of the work on transformation of the Hunger Steppe into the densely populated oasis and upscaling of this experience to Karshinskaya Steppe, Karakalpakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the organizer of the Scientific-Production Association SANIIRI, the active participant of establishing the Basin Water Organizations "Amudarya" and "Syrdarya", the author of 17 monographs, 30 patents and more than 300 publications, he took part in many innovative works undertaken in Central Asian countries for last years.
Since independence, he has become one of the active organizers of water partnerships, including the Interstate Coordination Water Commission, the International Fund for Aral Sea Saving, and Global Water Partnership of Central Asia and Caucasus. Professor Dukhovny actively promotes the regional interests in the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, where he is a Honorary Vice-President; in the World Water Council and in the International Water Resources Association, where he was elected as a member of the board. Thousands of water specialists from all the Central Asian countries were involved in implementation of advanced water resources management methods owing to his activity as an advisor and manager of a large number of the regional projects - "IWRM-Fergana", "The Central Asia Regional Water Information Base", "Automation of structures in the Fergana Valley", as well as the Training Center of ICWC.
- Antonio Embid, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Zaragoza
* To be confirmed