Who I am?
Where I belong?
I was born in a remote hills in Nepal, grew up in the flat plains of Terai in Nepal. I did my Bachelor degree from India, and Masters and PhD from the Netherlands. Live in the UK, currently work as Senior Professor at University of the Free State in South Africa.
Experiences
I’ve almost three decades of work experience in the fields of Integrated Water Resources Management, water and food security, water allocation, irrigation, hydrology and watershed modelling, flood risk management, river basin planning and management, industrial and agricultural water use efficiency and sustainability, water footprint assessment, and environmental impact assessment.
My carrier roles include working as Senior Water Advisor for WWF (>5yr, UK), as Science Director for Water Footprint Network (>4yr, The Netherlands), Irrigation Engineer (12yr, Nepal), and the rest as academic roles in various universities. Currently I work at the capacity of Senior Professor in University of Free State in South Africa. I’m also serving as Editors-In-Chief for the Open Access Scientific Journal H2Open published by IWA Publishing, and as an Editor for 3 more scientific journals. I’ve published 5 books, and 68 articles and reports with 12,502 citations with h-index of 36 and i10-index of 56 (Google Scholar, 20 Oct 2019).
Education
I hold a PhD in the field of water resources management and policy analysis from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), an MSc degree in Water and Environmental Resources Management from UNESCO- IHE Institute for Water Education (The Netherlands), and Bachelor in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee (India). I apply system approach in addressing issues on water, energy and food securities where managing local resources also includes global dimensions where key stakeholders are often cross-sectoral and situated outside the boxes. I’ve carried out and participated in a number of national and international projects in this field as a team leader, project leader, and international expert in several Asian, European and South American countries.
