Prof. Shalini Yadav is Professor in the Dept. of Civil Engineering and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Water and Environmental Research, Rabindranath Tagore University, Bhopal, India. Her research interests include solid and hazardous waste management, construction management, environmental quality, and water resources. She has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the area ofenvironment and water scienceand has gotrich experience in planning, formulating, organizing, executing, and management of R&D programs. She has gotto her credit guiding of 35 M.Tech. and 15 Ph.
D. students.She has published more than 90 journal articles and technical reports. She is Member of the organizing and scientific committee of several conferences and Reviewer in several of international journals. Also she has published a number of edited books, namely Environmental Management in India: Waste to Wealth, Wastewater Assessment, Treatment, Reuse and Development in India, in Springer Nature. Dr. Rajendra Prasad Pandey is presently working as Visiting Professor in the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee. Dr.
Pandey worked as ''Scientist G'' in the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee in India. He is Member-Secretary of Indian National Committee on Climate Change (INCCC) of Dept. of Water Resources RD; GR, Ministry of Jal Shakti. He served as member of a committee called "Science-Policy-Interface (SPI)" of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). He did B.Tech. in agricultural engineering (in 1986)anda masterdegree M. Tech.
in soil and water engineering (in 1988). He did isPh.D.degree on drought from Dept. of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee. He is Recipient of Eminent Water Resources Scientist Award-2021 of Indian Water Resources Society, IIT Roorkee. He was awarded Indo-Dutch WAMATRA Fellowship in 1991 for International course on "Land Drainage" at International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI), the Netherlands. Prof.
Ram Narayan Yadava holds the position of Advisor (research and international affairs) at MansarovarGlobal University, Bhopal(M.P.),India. He has worked as Advisor of the AISECT Group of Universities and Founding Vice Chancellor of the AISECT University, Hazaribag(Jharkhand), India. Prof. Yadava is also Founding Member of a premier scientific research organization named Advanced Materials and Processes Research Institute (AMPRI) under the umbrella of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. His research interests include solid mechanics, environmental quality and water resources, hydrologic modeling, environmental modeling, and R&D planning and management. Dr.
Yadava has executed a variety of research/consultancy projects in the areas of water resources planning and management, environment, remote sensing, mathematical modeling, technology forecasting, etc. He has adequate experience in establishinginstitutes/organizations. In addition, he has adequate experience in planning, formulating, executing, and managing R&D programs including organizing seminars/symposia/conferences at national and international levels.