Affiliation: Vice-rector for International Cooperation, UNESCO Chair Holder in Water Management in Central Asia at Kazakh-German University (Deutsch-Kasachische Universitat)
Research interest: water governance
Email: janusz-pawletta@dku.kz
Executive editors
Affiliation: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Research interest: understanding hydrological cycle in Central Asia; mountain hydrology (snow and glaciers); climate impact assessment on water resources in Central Asia; application of remote sensing data in hydrology; hydrological forecasting
Email: gafurov@gfz-potsdam.de
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Water Diplomacy, Integrated Water Systems and Governance Department, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
Research interest: water governance; water cooperation; water diplomacy; transboundary water cooperation; qualitative methods
Email: j.sehring@un-ihe.org
Affiliation: Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University Astana, Kazakhstan
Research interest: natural resources management; environmental policy and economics, decision aiding systems; hydro-economic modelling; water-energy-food nexus; agricultural policy and rural development; stakeholder analysis
Email: stefanos.xenarios@nu.edu.kz
Associate editors
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences; Senior Research Scientist, Mountain Societies Research Institute, University of Central Asia; Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast / Land & Water, CSIRO
Research interest: Water Resources Management and Engineering; Hydrological processes, environmental modeling and data assimilation
Email: bjarihan@usc.edu.au
Affiliation: Deputy Director at the Scientific Information Centre of Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC) in Central Asia, Associate Professor at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers, Vvice-chair of the Implementation Committee under the UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
Research interest: public international law, transboundary waters, water diplomacy and security.
Email: dinara.ziganshina@gmail.com
Affiliation: Associate professor, Leader, Hydrosystems engineering and management research group, University of Oulu, Finland.
Research interest: Lake and river flow regime, Large-scale Hydrology, Cold climate hydrology, Environmental Flow assessment, Sustainable water resources development, Extreme hydrology, River Engineering, Remote sensing in water resources, Dam and hydro power operation and Geotechnical engineering.
Email: ali.torabihaghighi@oulu.fi
Affiliation: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Workgroup Globalisation, Transformation, Gender.
Research interest: Development geography, Transformation studies, Political geography, Political ecology, Human-environment relations, Commons.
Email: andrei.doerre@fu-berlin.de
Affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany
Research interest: agrarian institutions in land and water management; agricultural innovations and sustainability; agricultural policy issues; Central Asian agricultural development
Email: ndjanibeko@gmail.com
Affiliation: Senior Researcher, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Senior Researcher, National Institute for Accreditation of RusAccreditation
Research interest: international relations; socio-economic development; monitoring and evaluation
Email: vanagornov@gmail.com
Affiliation: Associate Professor at the Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Research interest: mountain glaciers, mountain hazards, including glacier hazards, debris flows, floods and snow avalanches and climate change.
Email: dpetrakov@gmail.com
Affiliation: Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University
Research interests: water/wastewater treatment, pressure driven membranes, fouling mechanisms and control, colloids’ transport mechanisms through nanopores, nanotools for membrane pore size determination, forward osmosis, membrane distillation.