Scientific Programme Committee Mr. Jon Lane, Independent Consultant Jon Lane is the current Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee of the World Water Week. He is a British civil engineer by profession who has worked since the late 1980s in water and sanitation for poor people in developing countries, with a particular interest in sanitation and hygiene promotion. From 1994 to 1999 he was Chief Executive of WaterAid, which was the recipient of the Stockholm Water Prize in 1995. From 2007 to 2012 he was Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, during which time WSSCC created the Global Sanitation Fund. Currently he works as a consultant mainly in policy and strategy at the global and national level relating to sanitation and water in developing countries. Since 2014 he has served as an Independent Director of the Toilet Board Coalition. He has advised and worked with many leading organisations in this sector, and has chaired or served on various committees including the Sanitation and the Water for All Steering Committee, the Global Water Partnership Steering Committee, and the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program Advisory Committee. He has attended World Water Week frequently since 1995 and contributed to many conferences and publications. He holds M.A from Cambridge University in Engineering, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Member of the Malawi Institution of Engineers, and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Prof. Jennie Barron SLU I am professor in ‘Agricultural Water Management’ (‘Jordbrukets vattenhushållning och vattenkvalitet’) at Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala Sweden since October 2017. Prior this, I have worked as research leader in at International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and at Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York and at Stockholm Resilience Centre. I am and agricultural engineer from SLU (1994) and hold a PhD from Stockholm University on dryspell mitigation in semiarid Kenya smallholder farming systems. My research interest are in water management and sustainable intensification for resilient agro-ecological landscapes and farming communities, subject to climate and social change. Over the last 25 years, I have worked with interdisciplinary agricultural, water and land management related research, policy and development in sub-Sahara Africa and Asia with explicit outcome-impact orientation. I continually contribute on ad-hoc basis to various international and national research and policy processes incl., the CG system, the Swedish Environmental Advisory Council, FAO, UNCCD and UNEP on water, agricultural development and sustainability, benefits for economies and livelihoods, and ecosystem. In 2014, I was nominated by The Volkswagen Stiftung to the Academia net (www.academianet.org), an expert database for outstanding women academics by the Bosch Stiftung (Germany). Dr Fred Boltz, Resolute Development Solutions, Inc. University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dr. Fred Boltz heads Resolute Development Solutions, a consulting firm specialized in the design, execution, and adaptive management of conservation and development programs. His projects focus on water, environment, global change and the resilience of human systems. Current work includes advisory to the Water Funder Initiative, an alliance of philanthropies addressing water challenges in the U.S. and with EcoAdvisors, a certified B Corporation advancing environmental and sustainability solutions globally. Fred also serves as Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he leads an applied research program on water and resilience. Current work is featured in a special issue of Water Security “Building Resilience through Water.” Fred has over 30 years of experience in conservation and sustainable development efforts, including 9 years residing and working in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He formerly served as Managing Director and member of the leadership team at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he led the environment program and key resilience initiatives. He earlier served in Conservation International’s leadership team as head of conservation strategy and practice, climate change lead and head of international policy. Fred holds a Ph.D. in natural resource economics from the University of Florida and a B.A. in China studies from Duke University. A native English speaker, he is fluent in French and Spanish, and conversant in Portuguese, Malagasy and Mandarin Chinese. Mr. François Brikké, Mott Macdonald François Brikké is a development economist and a sanitary engineer with 25 years worldwide experience working in the water sector out of which 12 in issues related to integrated urban water management and planning. François has recently joined Mott Macdonald, leading the Global Future Cities Program in Indonesia, after being in charge of the Integrated Urban Water Management Program for seven years at the Global Water Partnership. He has also occupied the positions of Chief WASH at the UNICEF Office in Jakarta, of Regional Team Leader for Latin America of the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank, and of Senior Program Officer at the IRC, International Water and Sanitation Centre based in The Hague. He has been leading the Urban Theme at the World Water Forum of Brasilia, and is a member of the Scientific Program Committee of the Stockholm World Water Week. Mr. Sergio Campos Inter-American Development Bank Sergio I. Campos G. is the head of the water and sanitation team at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington D.C. He is responsible of the drinking water, sanitation, water resources management and solid waste portfolio which accounts to approximately USD 9,000 million in 100 projects in the IDB’s 26 member countries. In addition, he manages the Spanish Water and Sanitation Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (USD 1.1 billion) and the AquaFund, a multi-donor fund for technical cooperation. He has lead the design and implementation of initiatives and special programs with strategic partners in areas such as behavioral change (Lazos de Agua), green infrastructure (Latin American Water Funds Partnership), recycling (Regional Initiative for Inclusive Recycling), among others. In addition, he oversees the application of AquaRating, an assessment tool that evaluates the performance of public utilities; and Hydro-BID, a hydrological simulation tool that has mapped water availability in more than 280,000 watersheds across Latin America and the Caribbean. He is also in charge of the overall WASH knowledge and communications agenda (including publications, blogs, MOOCs, SPOCs, presentations), with an average of 12 technical publications a year. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Campos led the structuring of large water and sanitation infrastructure programs with sovereign guarantee and worked on structuring merger and acquisition projects in transport, energy, water and sanitation and telecommunications, as well as in reengineering projects, business consulting, and microfinance. Mr. Campos is an economist with Master’s degrees in Finances and Public Policy. Prof. Gyewoon Choi, Incheon National University Gyewoon Choi is currently Professor of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Incheon National University, Korea. He served as CEO of K-water, the government-owned water management corporation having over 4,500 employees from November, 2013 to May, 2016. He was at the forefront of resolving water and environment related affairs through multiple leadership roles, encompassing water resources, water supply, urban environment, sustainable management activities, new and renewable energy, and overseas business. A few notable leadership positions he has been appointed were Secretary General of World City Water Forum, Secretary General of International Conference on Hydro-Science and Engineering 2000, Vice Presidents of Korea Water Forum, Korean Water Resources Association and Korean Civil Engineering Association, Chairman of Korea National Committee on Large Dams, and the Founder & the First President of Asia Water Council. As the leader of one among co-organizing agencies for 7th World Water Forum, Gyewoon Choi initiated SWMI (Smart Water Management Initiative) to systematize the advanced water management approach having the collaboration with ICT technology. He also indicated the superior achievement in the area of research such as Managing Director of Smart Water grid Research Group and the area of governance between private and public sectors such as Co-chairman in Incheon Metropolitan City Stream Restoration Propulsion and Chairman of Incheon Social Enterprise Network. Prof. Guillermo Donoso Harris, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Professor Donoso works at the Water Law and Economics Center of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate students on Water Economics and Management and Natural Resource Economics. He was Dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the Catholic University of Chile between 1998 and 2007. His publications include book chapters such as: Water pricing experiences in Chile, Water Markets in Chile: Are They Meeting Needs? Regulating groundwater use through economic instruments: current practices, challenges and innovative approaches. and academic publications in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Water Resources Management, Water Policy,