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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Nguyen Xuan Tinh
Coastal Resilience
Xuan is a coastal resilience and flood management specialist with over 20 years of experience across Asia, North America, and the Pacific. With a PhD in Engineering from Tohoku University and advanced degrees from Sweden and Vietnam, he brings deep expertise in hydrodynamic modeling, sediment transport, and climate impact assessment. His work spans large-scale flood control projects, shoreline evolution studies, and climate-resilient infrastructure planning in Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines,…
Penelope Dutton
Inclusive Sanitation Specialist
Penny Dutton is a social specialist with 30 years of experience in water supply, sanitation and hygiene programs across the Asia Pacific region. Her ADB experience spans 15 projects and includes research, behaviour change communications, gender equity and social inclusion. She has participated in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of sanitation projects, while working with utilities, government ministries, and NGOs. Recently she helped develop guidance materials for ADB staff…
Peter Droogers
Climate Adaptation Specialist
Peter is an expert on integrated water resources management at different spatial scales with emphasis on water for food issues, climate change, decision support systems, simulation modeling in combination with data mining and remote sensing. Peter has about 20 years of experience working in The Netherlands and overseas (as a resident in Sri Lanka and Turkey). Non-resident assignments include: Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, France,…
Richard Reinen-Hamill
Coastal Resilience
Richard is a coastal resilience and natural hazard specialist with over 30 years of experience across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. As Technical Director at Tonkin + Taylor, he has led climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and nature-based coastal design projects in more than 30 countries. A Fellow of Engineering New Zealand and Chartered Professional Engineer, Richard brings deep expertise in multi-hazard risk assessment, shoreline adaptation planning, and early warning…
Ries Kluskens
Smart Water Specialist
Currently an international specialist smart data solutions within the climate resilience consultancy team of Royal HaskoningDHV. His experience ranges from high-level advising about digital transformation roadmaps to the actual implementation of cloud based geo-spatial data platforms and decision support systems. Applying his knowledge and skills in remote sensing, GIS, spatial data analytics, BIM and cloud technology fundamentals the focus is always to help clients and organizations to support…
Sanmugam A. Prathapar
Nature-based Resilience
Dr. Prathapar is a globally recognized water resources specialist with over 40 years of experience in climate-resilient agriculture, groundwater management, and nature-based solutions. His work has advanced sustainable water systems across Asia, Australia, and the Middle East, including large-scale managed aquifer recharge, salinity control, and flood mitigation using ecological approaches. With a PhD in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University, he has held senior roles at CSIRO,…
Seiichi Sasaki
Strategic Water Sector Analysis Specialist
Seiichi has over a 18-year of professional experience in strengthening water sector development (e.g., water, wastewater, solid wait management). He specializes in climate resilient resources management addressing sound policy and regulatory framework, risk reduction and sets out the rationale in development along with integrated approaches (e.g., IWRM, RBM, WUA, EU WFD, etc.) through dialoguing in areas of technical, political, and institutional assistance to national governments, public and…
Stephanie Hodge
Institutional Development Specialist
Stephanie has over 30 years of international public service experience. She specializes in climate change adaptation, mitigation, and water resources management, with cross-cutting experience in executing climate change strategy monitoring, evaluation and plan development, adaptation and risk reduction planning, training, digitization, human rights/safeguards monitoring and planning, and hands-on capacity building activities. She brings decades of leadership (working regionally since 1994),…
Steven Wade
Climate Risks Specialist
Steven has 27 years of experience in progressively senior and varied roles at Atkins, HR Wallingford and the Met Office. He has been engaged in climate risk assessment in the Water Sector since the late 1990s and has developed the risk assessment methods and tools used by the water industry as well as led the UK’s first national Climate Change Risk Assessment, published in 2012. He also developed CRA Knowledge Products for ADB on the WEIDAP project in Vietnam. Over the last decade, he developed…