Walter Rast
USA
Prof. Emeritus, Texas State University
Director, International Institute for Sustainable Water Resources, Alamo College District
The Scientific Committee, composed of a small number of internationally renowned scientists and experts in the field of lake and reservoir management and conservation, is responsible for advancing and implementing scientific policies that support the aims of ILEC. The members of the Committee work on a voluntary basis and are elected to serve a three-year term with the possibility of reappointment. The Bureau Members, consisting of the chairperson, vice-chairperson(s), and three other members (including the secretary), are entrusted with the business of the Scientific Committee. The current membership (the 13th term, from April 1st 2022 to March 31st 2025 is as follows.
They also publish the scientific journal “Lakes & Reservoirs” four times a year.
Chair
Vice Chair
Bureau Member
Sandra Azevedo
Brazil
Professor, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Daniel Olago
Kenya
Professor, Institute for Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA) & Department of Geology, University of Nairobi
Member
Ajit Kumar Pattnaik
India
Vice President, Wetlands International, South Asia
Colin Maxwell Finlayson
Australia
Adjunct Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales
Yoshihisa Shimizu
Japan
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Alejandro Juarez Aguilar
Mexico
Managing Director, Institute Corazon de la Tierra (Heart of the Earth), Guadalajara
Tiina Nõges
Estonia
Professor of Hydrobiology
Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery,
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Science,
Estonian University of Life Sciences
Masatsugu Takamatsu
Japan
Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management Unit for the South Asia Region, World Bank
Former Members
- Dr. Masaaki Naito [Japan] (Ex-officio)
- Prof. Xiangcan Jin [China]
- Dr. Mohan Kodarkar [India]
- Dr. Chris H. D. Magadza [Zimbabwe]
- Dr. Eric Odada [Kenya]
- Prof. Saburo Matsui [Japan]
- Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen [Denmark]
- Prof. Tatsuo Kira [Japan]
- Ms. Dianne Dumanoski [USA]
- Dr. Anders Jagerskog [Sweden]
- Prof. Nii Boi Ayibotele [Ghana]
- Ing. Conrado E. Bauer [Argentina]
- Dr. Riccardo De Bernardi [Italy]
- Prof. James P. Bruce [Canada]
- Ing. Alberto T. J. Calcagno [Argentina]
- Dr. Madhave Atmaram Chitale [India]
- Dr. Sven Evteev [Kenya]
- Prof. Takeshi Goda [Japan ]
- Prof. Genady N. Golubev [Russia]
- Dr. Steve Halls [Japan]
- Prof. Michio Hashimoto [Japan]
- Prof. Liu Hongliang [China]
- Dr. Sidharth Kaul [India]
- Dr. Triloki Nath Khoshoo [India]
- Prof. Heinz Loeffler [Austria]
- Prof. Ferenc Mate [Hungary]
- Prof. Kenneth Mavuti [Kenya]
- Dr. Richard A. Megank [Netherland]
- Prof. Mambillikalathil G. K. Menon MP [India]
- Dr. Michel Meybeck [France]
- Prof. Jurgen Overbeck [Germany]
- Prof. Pieter van der Zaag [Netherlands]
- Prof. Sanga Sabhasri [Thailand]
- Prof. Janos Salanki [Hungary]
- Prof. Milan Straskraba [Czech Republic]
- Prof. Richard Thomas [Canada]
- Prof. Jose Galizia Tundisi [Brazil]
- Prof. Richard A. Vollenweider [Canada]
- Prof. Robert George Wetzel [USA]
- Prof. Gilbert F. White [USA]
- Prof. William David Williams [Australia]
- Prof. Masahisa Nakamura [Japan]
- Prof. Nikolai Aladin [Russia]
- Dr. Richard Denis Roberts [Canada]
- Prof. Luigi Naselli-Flores [Italy]
- Prof. Tsugihiro Watanabe [Japan]
- MSc. Juan Skinner [Guatemala]
- Prof. Salif Diop [Senegal]
- Dr. Zhengyu Hu [China]