Professor John Langford AM (University of Melbourne)
John was educated at the University of Melbourne, completing a PhD in 1971. He has had a 35 year career in the Australian water industry, serving as Chief Executive of the Rural Water Commission of Victoria, from 1989 to 1994. From 1994 to 2003 he was the inaugural Executive Director of the Water Services Association of Australia. He is currently Director of Uniwater, a joint venture between Melbourne and Monash Universities. In just 2.5 years $5.80 of cash research funding has been raised for every $1 invested in the Centre. John is a Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia. and has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship, 1973, the Peter Hughes award for contribution to water management in Australia, 2000, Centenary Medallist, and was awarded an Order of Australia in the Queens Birthday Honours list, 2005.

Professor Nick Clifford (University of Nottingham)
Educated (MA and PhD) at the University of Cambridge, he is now Professor of River Science at Nottingham, and a Chartered Geographer. Nick leads the Hydro-ecological Assessment of River Restoration Projects (HARRP) Research Group, and Chairs the multi-disciplinary Water Strategy Group at Nottingham encompassing 60+ staff members across eight Schools. Nick is an Editorial Board Member of River Research and Applications, was an original member of the NERC Peer Review College, and most recently was appointed to the NERC Sustainable Use of Natural Resources Strategy Committee. He has consulted widely for industry and governments, and his research grant income approaches $1.5 m over the last five years. His interests lie in fluvial and estuarine geomorphology and management; hydrodynamic and morphodynamic modelling; river restoration and eco-hydraulics; environmental instrumentation and statistical and numerical analysis of environmental data.

Professor Rae Mackay (University of Birmingham)
Graduated from Imperial College, London in 1978. Following a period in industry with Sir M Macdonald and Partners Ltd. UK, he joined the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985 and became the Director of the Centre for Land Use and Water Resources Research spanning the Faculties of Agriculture and Engineering before accepting the Chair in Hydrogeology in the School of Earth Sciences at Birmingham University in 1997. His particular interests are in the fields of groundwater engineering, groundwater pollution and water resources development. He has worked extensively overseas. He leads the Hydrogeology Research Group (HRG) at Birmingham and is programme director for the highly successful MSc course in Hydrogeology. He has published widely and has undertaken a broad range of research projects at Newcastle and Birmingham with an annual budget of around £200K averaged over the last 20 years. Professor Mackay is a member of the management team for a consortium of 32 partners that was awarded in 2006 a €23M integrated research project developing sustainable urban water methodologies.

Professor Joseph Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and joined the University of Hong Kong in 1980. He has served as Associate Dean of Engineering (1999-2000), Dean of Engineering from 2000 to 2003 and is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor for staffing. He is also currently Redmond Chair of Civil Engineering and Director of the Croucher Laboratory of Environmental Hydraulics. Professor Lee is interested in the use of hydraulics/fluid mechanics to solve environmental problems, in particular the prediction and control of water quality. Author of 100+. He is a leader of the University Grants Committee Area of Excellence in Marine Environmental Research and Innovative Technology (MERIT). He is the Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Division of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), and a Vice-President of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also Advisory Professor of Tongji University and Hohai University. Professor Lee has served as expert advisor to the Hong Kong Government on many environmental projects including the Hong Kong Harbour Area Treatment Scheme, the Tai Hang Tung Storage Scheme, the Red Tide Monitoring and Management Study, and the Deep Bay Water Quality Regional Control Strategy Study. He is Chairman of the University Grants Committee Research Assessment Exercise Built Environment Panel (1999) and winner of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Innovation Award for Construction Industry in 2002.

Professor Alan Ervine (University of Glasgow)
PhD from Queens (Belfast, 1974); Design of Kielder Water Scheme, UK, 1974-78; Professor of Water Engineering Glasgow 1997-present. Head of Civil Engineering Glasgow 2001- 2005; Co-ordinator of the EPSRC Network on River Flood Conveyance with 40+ partners; Co-ordinator of the Glasgow U21 team with 12 partners with annual research income exceeding $2 million. His research interests include sustainability, dams, hydraulic structures, river flow Hydraulics and fish passes; energy for developing countries and has published 105 journal and conference papers. Awarded the James Forrest Medal, the James Watt Medal and the Telford Premium 2000 all the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK.

Professor Wu-Seng (Winston) Lung (University of Virginia)
Received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1975, specializing in water quality and ecosystem modeling.  Following an 8-year period of working in environmental consulting, he joined the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVa) in 1983 and is now a Professor and Assistant Chair for Graduate Program.  He has over 35 years of experience in fate and transport modeling of contaminants in ecosystems.  At UVa, he has been working on estuarine modeling of eutrophication and toxic substances for use in water quality management.  His current research is in tracking the attenuation of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in ambient waters.  In addition to publishing over 50 refereed journal papers, he has authored two books: Water Quality Modeling: Application to Estuaries, CRC Press, 1993 and Water Quality Modeling for Wasteload Allocations and TMDLs, John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Professor Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen (McGill University)
Completed his Doctor of Applied Sciences degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Montreal (Canada) in 1979. Van Nguyen is currently holder of the Endowed Brace Professor Chair in Civil Engineering at McGill University. He is also Director of the Brace Centre for Water Resources Management as well as Associate Director of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill. His professional contributions over more than 25 years have been mostly in the areas of Hydrology and Water Resources Management. In particular, his research interests cover a remarkable range of topics including: modelling and analyses of various hydrologic processes (rainfalls, temperature, floods, river flows, ice accumulations, reservoir inflows); modelling of river basin and urban storm drainage systems; assessment of climate change impacts on water resources; regional estimation of extreme hydrologic variables (extreme rainfalls, floods, icing storms); forecasting and simulation of hydrologic series (rainfall and streamflow forecasting); and management of water resources systems for sustainable development. He is author or co-author of over 150 papers in refereed journals, specialized monographs and conference proceedings. He has been invited to serve in various national and international expert committees and scientific journal editorial boards as well as to deliver keynote lectures at many universities, scientific conferences, and training workshops in Canada and abroad. Finally, since several years he has been being active in international co-operation activities that include development of joint research projects and organization of conferences and training workshops in the fields of hydrology and water resources management with colleagues in North-America, Europe (France, and Switzerland), and in Asia-Pacific region (Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). He has been invited professors at universities in Canada, Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia as well as an active member in several professional associations (AOGS, APHW, AGU, ASCE, AWRA, IAHS, and IWA). Recently, he was elected as President of the Hydrological Science Section of the Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society (2006-2008).