Experts
The ADB Water Sector Group has empaneled a pool of experts and consultants who can support ADB project officers and their counterpart executing and implementing agencies in various aspects of water security and resilience. Use Jal's Ask The Expert feature to raise detailed queries to our experts.
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Damien Million
Water Instrumentation Specialist
Electrical engineer with more than 20 years’ experience in instrumentation, SCADA, smart water systems, performance and optimization, digital tools, information systems, equipment tendering, control and technical solutions for drinking water, wastewater, process water and sludge treatment for both public and private sectors. Has experience in more than 20 countries including many in Asia.
Douglas Lyall Ramsay
Coastal Resilience
Douglas is a coastal engineer and climate adaptation specialist with over 30 years of experience across the Pacific and the UK. He has led resilience planning, hazard assessments, and infrastructure design in more than a dozen island nations, working with partners such as National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, the Asian Development Bank, and New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Douglas is known for…
Eduardo García Alonso
Smart Water Specialist
Civil engineer more than 25 years’ experience specialized in water planning, water security, water system management, smart water systems and associated technologies, with a focus on hydrology, water resources, flood risk and smart water systems. Main capability includes application of digital technologies to the water sector and risk reduction schemes using nature-inspired solutions. He is familiar with the technicalities of climate adaptation in the water sector, and positive about the role…
Eelco Van Beek
Strategic Water Sector Analysis Specialist
In 1972, Mr. Van Beek graduated cum laude at the Delft University of Technology in Civil Engineering. He joined Delft Hydraulics (now Deltares) in 1976. During the 45+ years of his career, Prof. Van Beek has carried out many water resources development projects, ranging from projects with emphasis on long-term planning to real-time operation. He is co-author of the textbook on water resources management “Water Resource Systems Planning and Management – An Introduction to Methods, Models, and…
Fabio Masi
Nature-based Resilience
Fabio is an environmental chemist with more than 30 years of experience in sustainable water management and ecological infrastructure. As Technical Director at IRIDRA, he has co-authored and managed more than 500 designs of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment and reuse across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. His work focuses on integrating multi-stage wetlands into urban and rural planning for wastewater treatment, climate adaptation, and circular water systems. A Fellow of…
Felix Seebacher
Climate Adaptation Specialist
Educated in Austria, Netherlands and USA I cover a wide range of water related topics. During the past 40+ years I have worked literally on most aspects of the water cycle, from rainfall all the way to groundwater on quantitative and qualitative aspects. Examples of projects implemented include: revitalisation of wetlands and river branches within a national park; cleaning up major groundwater contaminations; restoring lake water quality; major flood protection and mitigation projects; complex…
Ferdinand Diermanse
Climate Risks Specialist
Ferdinand is a senior specialist with an M. Sc. in applied mathematics and a Ph. D. in hydrology, both from Delft University of Technology. He is an expert in the field of flood risk analysis and management with over 20 years of work experience. His key qualifications are: probabilistic modeling, statistics, hydrology and integrated risk assessment. He has carried out numerous hydrological and risk assessments for a variety of inland and coastal water systems and published various papers on…
Gijs Simons
Nature-based Resilience
Dr. Simons is an expert in Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) and water resources management, with over 15 years of experience designing and implementing climate-resilient strategies across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. As Managing Director at FutureWater, he spearheads projects that integrate hydrological modeling, remote sensing, and GIS to inform ecosystem-based adaptation and watershed investment programs. His work bridges science and policy—developing tools, training modules, and…
Gopalakrishna Bhat
Climate Adaptation Specialist
Gopalakhrisna, a geologist by profession, specializes in hazard risk and vulnerability assessment in South Asia. He has worked in different ecosystems ranging from cold deserts to per-humid regions. Recently, he published “Road to Resilience” a book providing menu of technologies for improving resilience at household and neighborhood levels. The book “Synergy for Sustainable Cities” explores multi-stakeholder led options to build urban resilience, which is based on Cultural theory. The latest…