Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah (Edited By) Dr. Muhammad Azeem Ali Shah is an international researcher working on water governance institutions at the International Water Management Institute, Lahore, Pakistan. His expertise is in water governance, transboundary water management, flow monitoring/instrumentation, natural resource management and solar-based irrigation systems. Before IWMI, Azeem worked as Principal and Senior Researcher on donor-funded transboundary water management projects with the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. He also served in the corporate sector with multinational companies Nestlé and Honda. Jonathan Lautze (Edited By) Dr. Jonathan Lautze is Research Group Leader, Integrated Management of Basins and Aquifers, at the International Water Management Institute in South Africa. His expertise is in water security, transboundary waters, water-energy-food nexus and water health.
Before IWMI he worked at United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Bank and the Peace Corps. Asadullah Meelad (Edited By) Mr. Asadullah Meelad holds a Master's degree in International Development, which includes two programs; Governance and Law, and Peace Building/ Conflict Resolution from the Graduate School of International Development (GSID) of Nagoya University in Japan. He has written his Master's thesis on the environmental issue of Hamun Wetlands (an ongoing controversy between Afghanistan and Iran) in the Helmand River Basin. For over a decade, he has held several key positions which have collectively sustained ongoing interdisciplinary research, training/teaching and capacity building in promoting and strengthening regional cooperation and diplomacy towards the management of water, and related conflicts between Afghanistan and its neighbours. He has also been exposed to a wide range of water conflict, cooperation and diplomacy situations through his association with Mr. Richard Paisley and the International Waters Governance Initiative at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. E.
g. Central Asia / Aral Sea, Nile, Mekong, Columbia. Since 2012, he has delivered presentations and lectured on topics related to transboundary water issues during his graduate studies, during his jobs with Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Ministry of Public Works (MPW) and at several international forums. Additionally, he has contributed as a trainer and mentor in several capacity building and training programs within the MEW, including the providing of training to Afghan journalists on water related issues and to water user associations on behalf of the MEW. Since November 2021 Mr. Meelad has been teaching international crisis management at Kardan Univesity (Band 1 Private University in Afghanistan), Department of Master's in International Relations.