Prof. Asit Biswas
Leading Authority on Water & Environmental Management
Prof. Asit Biswas is one of the world's leading authorities on water and environmental management. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor to the University of Glasgow and was a member of the World Commission on Water, and co-founder of International Water Resources Association and World Water Council.
"He has added new dimensions to the wise use of the global water resources"
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Professor Biswas is advisor & confidant to Presidents, PMs and Ministers of 19 countries, six Heads of UN Agencies, two Secretary-Generals of OECD and several heads of IGOs and MNCs on water and development-related issues. He was a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and is currently member of the International Advisory Board, Pictet Asset Management, Geneva and Strategic Advisor, Singapore International Water Week. He has received the Stockholm Water Prize, considered to be the Nobel Prize for water, for "his outstanding and multi-faceted contributions to global water resource issues".
WHAT he OFFERS YOU
With his encyclopaedic knowledge on water and global development issues, he offers audiences new and innovative ideas on how the world's present and future water and environment-related problems can be solved with existing knowledge, technology and management practices. He offers new insights on water infrastructure development and management through public-private partnerships.