Keynote Speaker
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia
Dato Ir Husaini Sulaiman obtained his first degree in Civil Engineering from Loughborough United Kingdom
in 1978 and Master degree from Leuven Belgium in Irrigation Engineering in 1986. He served various
designation in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) started as an Engineer (1986-1988),
state DID Melaka director (1988-1990), DID Selangor deputy director (1990-1996), DID Johor deputy
director (1996-1999), National Hydraulic Research Institute Malaysia (NAHRIM) as head of hydraulic
Engineering (1999-2002), Project Engineer for Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (2002-2003), DID
state Negeri Sembilan director (2003-2006), DID Headquarters as a deputy director general (2006-2007)
and currently, he is a Director General for DID Headquarters.
Howard Wheater is a Professor of Hydrology at Imperial College and Director
of the Imperial College Environment Forum. He is a past-President of the
British Hydrological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,
a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a life member of the
International Water Academy (Oslo). He has a wide international experience
of flood, water resource and water quality studies, including the Middle East,
Far East, Africa and South America, and was recently awarded the Prince
Sultan bib Abdulaziz International Prize for Water. His scientific output
includes 200 refereed papers and 7 books.He is co-Chair of UNESCO's GWADI
arid zone water resources programme and a member of the GEWEX scienctific
steering group of the World Climate Research Programme. In the UK he is Chair
of HYDRA, a water science consortium of universities and research institutes,
and currenly leads a national research programme in Flood Risk Management.
Mohammad Karamouz is a Professor of Water Resources Engineering at School
of Civil Engineering, Fanni College, University of Tehran. He is now
affiliated wıth Polytechnic Unıversity of New York University ın New York
City as a Research Professor. He is also Fellow of American Society of
Civil Engineers. He obtained his PhD in Hydraulic and System Engineering,
Purdue University, West Lafayette. He served as Visiting Professor of Water
Resources at University of Arizona, Tucson, served as Dean and Professor of
Civil Engineering at Pratt Institute Brooklyn, New York. His academic research
projects mainly related to decision support system, decision making in water
resources, optimal management of water quantity and quality, drought management
strategy, reservoir operation and flood control. Professor Karamouz serves nationally
and internationally as a consultant.
He obtained his PhD in Hydrology and
Water Resources, University of Montreal, Canada. He is endowed
Brace Professor Chair in Civil Engineering. Professor Nguyen's teaching
and research contributions have been mostly in the areas
of hydrology and water resources management. More
specifically, his teaching duty in the past several years
includes: hydrology, water resources management,
systems analysis, statistics and stochastic processes. His
research experience includes: modelling and simulation of
hydrologic processes, modelling of urban storm drainage
and river basin systems, and multi-purpose reservoir
systems operation and management. He has been involved
in a number of projects with various engineering companies in Canada.
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| With the collaboration of: | |||
 Department Irrigation & Drainage (DID) |
 National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM) |
 Langkawi Development Authority (LADA) |
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| Supported By: | |||
 Humid Tropics Centre Kuala Lumpur (HTCKL) |
 International Association of Hydraulic Engineering & Research (IAHR) |
 United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |
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 International Hydrological Programme (IHP) |
 Malaysian Hydrological Society |
 Tourism Malaysia |
 Langkawi Geopark |
