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Tom has over 35 years of experience in the water/wastewater fields, spanning both the public and private sectors and includes all aspects of water/wastewater utility operations, management, policy, and information systems.  Tom served on the Board of Directors of the San Diego County Water Authority for over seven year. Tom has been a member of the American Water Works Association for over 20 years and serves on the Water Loss Control Committee where he is a co-author of the  4th and 5th edition of the M36 Water Audit and Loss Control Programs Manual.  Tom has engaged in water/wastewater consulting projects in countries around the world including the Philippines, Indonesia, and most recently in Uzbekistan. Tom has worked with dozens of utilities to evaluate existing technical and business processes to develop options for improvement with an emphasis on using information systems to drive both operational performance and management planning/decision making.

A Civil Engineer, with a PhD in Water Resources Engineering, Tony is internationally recognized for his research and practice in sustainable urban water management, particularly in Water Sensitive Urban Design. His expertise has been gained through national and international consulting, research, and academia. Throughout his career, he has led collaboration and translation of research insights into innovative practices in urban water management. He led a large number of award-winning urban design projects in Australia and overseas and has been commended for having defined "a new paradigm for design of urban environments that blends creativity with technical and scientific rigour”.

Xianfu is an independent climate scientist and adaptation specialist. Affiliated with the University of Oxford, she has been providing technical advisory services. Dr Lu’s work spans climate change adaptation science, policy and practice. She has worked across diverse institutional contexts, from academia, UN agencies, multilateral development banks to the private sector. Since 2011, Xianfu has been supporting the operationalisation of integrating physical climate risk management into MDB operations. She made substantive contributions to the development of technical procedures and resources to support operational teams in factoring in adaptation and climate resilience into project development within ADB, AIIB and the World Bank. Xianfu has also been contributing to the development of the joint MDB methodology for assessing the alignment of operations with the adaptation goals of the Paris Alignment. Xianfu was a Coordinating Lead Author for the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Yoshihiro Mizuno is an Executive Project Manager for PACIFIC CONSULTANTS CO., LTD. in Japan. He has worked for over decade in the fields of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, and Renewable Energy, addressing Environmental issues through engineering, policy, capacity building and high-level ICT tools. As Project Manager, he has led and designed numerous studies in Climate Resilience, particular in GHG emissions calculation and reduction, across the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. He has worked to integrate and mainstream Climate Resilience into numerous DMC government socioeconomic development master plans and facilitate climate change adaptation programs through technical support. His work includes development of web-based ICT tools for climate resilience and official guidelines for emissions reduction. He has built a solid network of stakeholders and clients worldwide, particularly with the Ministry of Environment of Japan through his work with the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) program.