Mr. Khan is the Executive Director of the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services, a public trust under the Ministry of Water Resources. He has done his M.Sc in Hydroinformatics, IHE, Netherlands; B.Sc in Civil Engineering, BUET.

Mr. Khan has over three decades experience in water resource planning and management, integrated coastal zone management & planning, transboundary water management, climate change, climate change impact assessment, disaster impact assessment, integrated, long-term strategic planning, master plans and natural resource management, climate change risk/vulnerability and disaster risk and damage assessment, multi-sectoral analysis of climate change impact & adaptation, setting up monitoring mechanism of evidence of climate change and climate variability. 

Mr. Khan has been involved with the National Water Management Plan, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, Haor Master Plan, National Adaptation Plan. Mr. Khan has over 12 years’ experience in transboundary water management. He has 30 publications so far including various peer reviewed journal papers and conference papers.

Joseph Hun-wei Lee is the Vice-Chancellor and President of Macau University of Science and Technology. He is an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and academician of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is currently the president of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. He Served as the founding editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydroenvironment Research and the chairman of the review committee of the Hong Kong Public Policy Research Funding Scheme. 

Professor Li has been engaged in environmental hydraulics, offshore water quality simulation technology, and theoretical methods and engineering applications of urban water security. His research outcomes have been widely applied in hydraulic and environmental engineering around the world. He has won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Achievement Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the ASCE Hilgard Hydraulic Research Award, the honorary member of IAHR, and the Croucher Foundation Award, etc.

Xinqiang NIU was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a national engineering survey and design master. He is currently the dean of the Yangtze River Survey, Planning and Design Institute, the director of the National Dam Safety Engineering Technology Research Center, the vice chairman of the Hubei Science and Technology Association, and the vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Dam Engineering.

Xinqiang NIU has presided over and participated in more than 10 major national water conservancy and hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and the middle line of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. He has profound attainments in the fields of high dam navigation, large-scale hydraulic structures, long-distance water diversion across river basins, ecological restoration and protection of the Yangtze River. He has successively won 5 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 7 provincial and ministerial special prizes. He has published 9 monographs and more than 70 papers. He has won the National Labor Medal, National Advanced Worker Award, the First National Innovation Award, National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent, the First International Outstanding Dam Engineer Award, etc.

Jiuhui Qu was born in 1957. He is from Changchun, Jilin. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, foreign academician of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World. He is a researcher of the Eco-Environmental Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a distinguished professor in Tsinghua University.

Academician Jiuhui Qu has been engaged in water quality science, technology and engineering application research for a long time. His main research interests include drinking water safety, water purification and energy conversion, wastewater treatment process, water pollution control and ecological restoration in river basins. He presided over the national 973, 863 and other key scientific and technological projects. He has published more than 400 papers and obtained more than 100 Chinese and international authorized invention patents. He won 2 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2 second prizes of the National Technology Invention, 3 first prizes of the Provincial and Ministerial Science and Technology, 1 Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Progress Award, and 2 International Awards.

Dragan Savić is Chief Executive Officer at KWR Water based in the Netherlands and Professor of Hydroinformatics at the University of Exeter in the UK. Professor Savić is an international expert in smart water systems with over 35 years of experience working in engineering, academia and research consultancy. He has held senior roles in non-profit, private and public sector organisations operating in diverse contexts in the UK, Netherlands and internationally. His work has resulted in patentable innovation and spinout companies. In addition to innovation and leadership skills, he is known for believing in and practising "bridging science and practice" in the wider water sector and utilities in general. Prof. Savi is a regular speaker at industry events and a published author of thought leadership.

Harry Seah, appointed as Deputy Chief Executive (Operations), provides strategic oversight to the entire water systems operations of PUB to ensure total integration, effective management so that PUB remains operationally effective and efficient to serve the water needs of Singapore.

Prior to his current appointment, Harry Seah was Assistant Chief Executive (Future Systems & Technology) and Chief Engineering and Technology Officer at PUB, leading PUB’s efforts in the continuous exploration, research and development of water technologies essential to future-proof Singapore's water system. Under his leadership, PUB has established itself to be among the world’s most innovative and forward-looking utilities.

Hongwu Tang was born in September 1966. He is from Jianhu, Jiangsu. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is currently the Secretary of the Party Committee of Hohai University. He has won honors such as the National Science Fund for distinguished young scholars, the First National Innovation Excellence Award, the National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker, the Qianning Sediment Science and Technology Award, etc.

He has long been engaged in scientific and technological research and engineering practice in the field of hydraulics and river dynamics, and has made outstanding contributions to the research and practice of plain hydrodynamics and river and lake governance engineering. He has successively presided over and undertaken more than 150 national scientific and technological research projects, such as national 863, and Ministry of Water Resources 948, and innovatively solved the key points of river control projects such as the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River, and the Pearl River. He won 4 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 5 provincial and ministerial first prizes and special prizes. He has published 4 books and more than 200 papers and authorized 45 invention patents.

Chris Zevenbergen (1958) is professor of urban (flood) resilience at the Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft and of Delta Urbanism at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TuDelft, The Netherlands. He is also a visiting professor at the Southeast University (SEU). In the past 20 years he has accumulated extensive national and international experience with integrated approaches to manage floods in the urban environment. His research interest is specifically on innovative concepts to mitigate urban flood impacts, on flood proofing building designs and technologies and on decision support tool development in urban planning with practical application in urban flood management. He has published/edited five books and more than 200 scientific publications in the field of environmental engineering, urban design and urban flood risk management.

Zhiyu Zhong was born in December 1965. He is from Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. He owns a PhD degree of Engineering and he is a professor-level senior engineer. He is a member of Jiusan Society. He is currently a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, a member of the Agricultural and Rural Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, and chief engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources. 

Zhiyu Zhong has been engaged in the planning and design of the Yangtze River Basin and major water conservancy projects. He is responsible for the compilation of comprehensive planning, flood control planning and water resources planning of the Yangtze River Basin. He has successively won a number of awards including the Top Ten Outstanding Youth from Hubei Provincial Government, Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions from Hubei Province, the Qianning Sediment Science and Technology Award, and the Liuguangwen Engineering Technology Award.

Chengqing Zhu was born in April 1965. She is from Bazhong, Sichuan. She is a senior engineer and a member of Jiusan Society. She started working in April 1990. She is currently a standing member of the 15th Central Committee of the Jiusan Society, a standing member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources. She is responsible for policies and regulations, river and lake management, river and lake chief system, water and soil conservation, rural water conservancy and hydropower, water conservancy science and technology.