Mike Muller

Mike Muller was Director General of South Africa’s Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) from 1998-2005, where he led the development and implementation of new water services and water resources policies, water sharing agreements and cooperation projects with Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. A civil engineer by training, Mike also has extensive experience in general public management. He is currently a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and Development Management at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a member of the Global Water Partnership’s Technical Committee.

Teun Bastemeijer

Director of the Water Integrity Network (WIN), based in Berlin, Germany. A Dutch national, Teun has a background as a civil engineer from Delft University, The Netherlands, specialising in Polder Development, water in relation to land use management and physical infrastructure planning. He has almost 20 years experience in the water sector and over 30 years involvement with development work in government, civil society and academic environments. He has previously worked as a project manager, country director and senior advisor for the UN, the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.

Duncan Mara

Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK since 1979 and a Visiting Professor of Environmental Engineering, Instituto Cinara, Colombia, since 1996. Duncan is British/Canadian national. He has also lectured in Kenya and Brazil and was Senior Technical Advisor for the UNDP/World Bank Technology Advisory Group (TAG), which was the predecessor of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). He is an expert in tropical wastewater treatment, waste stabilization pond systems, tropical sanitary microbiology, and low-cost peri-urban sanitation in developing countries. He maintains an extensive personal home page with water and sanitation resources, and publishes a Sanitation blog. Read his full curriculum vitae.

Vishwanath Srikantaiah

Secretary General of the International Rainwater Catchment Association (IRCSA), advisor to Indian water NGO Arghyam and water columnist for The Hindu. Vishwanath, an Indian national, is a Civil Engineer and Urban and Regional Planner by qualification. By occupation, he is a writer and practitioner/promoter of sustainable water management systems, especially rainwater harvesting systems, and ecological sanitation. He runs the Rainwater Club website, and a Youtube channel and Twitter page under the pseudonym Zenrainman.