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A Report by the Asia Society Leadership Group on Water Security
Asia’s Next Challenge: Securing the Region’s Water Future
April 22, 2009 9:00 – 11:00am
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Asia Society Leadership Group on Water Security
ANDREW BENEDEK SURIN PITSUWAN Founder, ZENON Environmental, Inc. Secretary-General of ASEAN GARETH EVANS JEFFREY SACHS Former Foreign Minister of Australia Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University AJIT GULABCHAND NAFIS SADIK CEO, Hindustan Construction Co. Special Advisor to the UNSG HAN SUNG-JOO N.G. WICKREMERATNE Former Foreign Minister of South Korea CEO, Hayleys Limited YORIKO KAWAGUCHI ERNA WITOELAR Former Foreign & Environment Minister of Japan Former Minister of Human Settlements &Regional Development of Indonesia TOMMY KOH (Group Chairman) Singapore’s Ambassador at Large XIANBIN YAO Director General, Regional Development, Asian RAJENDRA PACHAURI Development Bank Chairman, IPCC YUAN MING Director, Institute of Intl Relations, Peking University Linden Ellis - DC Report Launch Presentation_Suzanne.ppt Page 3
Contributing Writers
MARGARET CHAN, Director-General, World Health Organization
UPMANU LALL, Director, Columbia Water Center, Earth Institute at Columbia University
KAPIL NARULA, Director, India Office, Columbia Water Center, Earth Institute at Columbia University
RAJENDRA K. PACHAURI, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
JENNIFER L. TURNER, Director, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
VITOON VIRIYASAKULTORN, Senior Governance Specialist, United States Agency for International Development/Environmental Cooperation-Asia (USAID/ECO-Asia) Linden Ellis - DC Report Launch Presentation_Suzanne.ppt Page 4
Advisory Group
Principal Advisor: Erik R. Peterson, Center for Strategic & International Saleem H. Ali, University of Vermont Studies Frederik Pischke, UN Division for Sustainable Project Advisors: Development Wouter Lincklean Arriens, Asian Development Bank Rachel Posner, Center for Strategic & International Aslam Chaudhry, UN Department of Economic and Studies (CSIS) Social Affairs Anne Rogers, UN Department of Economic and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Social Affairs Michael Gerrard, Columbia University Robert Schoellhammer, Asian Development Bank Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute K. E. Seetharam, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore) Tanya Heikkila, Columbia University Daniel Stellar, Columbia University Ramaswamy Iyer, UNSGAB High Level Expert Panel on Water & Disaster Kazuo Tase, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Khoo Teng Chye, Singapore Public Utilities Board Ti Le Huu, UN Economic & Social Commission for Marc Levy, Columbia University Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Priscilla Lewis, U.S. in the World Initiative, Demos Rong Wang, China Center for Law and Sustainable Ravi Narayanan, Asia-Pacific Water Forum Development Research Hideaki Oda, Japan Water Forum Aaron Wolf, Oregon State University Linden Ellis - DC Report Launch Presentation_Suzanne.ppt Page 5
Report Rationale
Raise awareness of the importance of water as a means of security at multiple levels.
Make technical data and findings more accessible to decision makers, opinion makers and the public at large (non-water experts).
Utilize Asia Society as an objective, independent and influential platform for policy change and civil society activism at the intergovernmental and grassroots levels.
Reach new audiences through partnerships/collaborations: Earth Institute Water Center at Columbia University, Asia- Pacific Water Forum, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Asian Development Bank. Linden Ellis - DC Report Launch Presentation_Suzanne.ppt Page 6
AsiaSociety.org/water