Speakers

Glen T. Daigger – Main Speaker of Global Experience-I

Senior Vice President and Chief Water Technology Officer, CH2M HILL, USA.
President, International Water Association (IWA)

Member, US National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Specialized in “biological wastewater treatment and treatment process design, in particular biological nutrient removal (both nitrogen and phosphorus), combined trickling filter and activated sludge systems, the use of biological selectors to control activated sludge bulking, and oxygen transfer”.

2012

Purdue University's Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award

James L. Barnard – Main Speaker of Global Experience-I

Global Practice and Technology Leader, Black & Veatch, USA

Specialized in “biological nutrient removal (BNR), wastewater treatment, and sustainable development”.

1987		WEF’s Thomas R. Camp Award
1988		Koch/Imhoff Award from the International Water Association
2007		Clarke Prize from the National Water Research Institute
2011		Fellow of Water Environment Federation
2011		Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize

George A. Ekama – Main Speaker of Global Experience-I

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Member of the South African Academy of Science, South Africa
Member of the South African Academy of Engineering, South Africa

Specialized in “WWTP modelling, biological sulphate reduction and autotrophic denitrification, energy recovery from concentrated organics waste streams, and source separation of urine”.

1998		WISA’s Piet Vosloo Memorial prize (infrequent) for development of mathematical models for biological wastewater treatment plant design
2002		Senior Fellow of the Water Institute of Southern Africa
2004		WISA/WRC/CSIR Stander Memorial Lecturer
2013		National Order of Mapungubwe Award

Yoshimasa Watanabe – Main Speaker of Global Experience-II

Professor, Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University, Japan

Specialized in “development of water metabolic system of area-based society, hybrid water and wastewater treatment technology using membrane, and phosphorous recovery from sludge”.

2008

The International Water Association (IWA) Award for
Outstanding Contribution to Water Management and Science

Hallvard Ødegaard – Main Speaker of Global Experience-II

Professor Emeritus, Department of Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

CEO, Scandinavian Environmental Technology AS (SET AS), Norway

Specialized in “development of the moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) process, chemical/biological treatment processes, sludge treatment by hydrolysis processes, effective particle separation processes in wastewater treatment”.

1990		The Water Prize of the Norwegian Water Association
1995		The Water Prize of the Swedish Association for Water
2006		The Internationalization Prize of NTNU
2006		The Technoport Prize for Innovative Environmental Technology
2010		Knight of 1st Class from the Norwegian King

Yi Qian – Main Speaker of Regional Experience-I

Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, China

Specialized in “wastewater treatment, sustainable development, and circular economy principle and policy”.

1993		The Third Prize of National Science and Technology Progress
1997		Highest Prize for Global Cooperation of China Environment and Development
1998		The Third Prize of National Science and Technology Invention
2003		The Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress

Takao Murakami – Main Speaker of Regional Experience-I

Head of Engineering, Senior Technical Adviser, Nihon Suido Consultants Co. Ltd., Japan

Specialized in "Development of biological nutrient removal process, resource recovery from wastewater and sludge, and wastewater treatment and reuse by MBR".

Hang-Sik Shin – Main Speaker of Regional Experience-I

Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Specialized in “nutrient (nitrogen & phosphorus) removal in wastewater, anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, membrane technology and membrane bioreactor”.

Chung-Leung Li, Ricky – Main Speaker of Regional Experience-II

Chief Electrical & Mechanical Engineer, Drainage Services Department, HKSARG

He was promoted as Chief E&M Engineer in 2009 and was posted at the Drainage Services Department (DSD) in 2012 for the provision of project management and advisory services on E&M aspects of capital works projects, as well as leading the sewage treatment research and development work undertaken by DSD.

Wun-Jern Ng – Main Speaker of Regional Experience-II

Professor, Dean of the College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Executive Director, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI), Singapore

Specialized in “water quality, treatment science, and development of treatment technologies, and the cyclic MBR applied with granulated biomass”.

1997	The ASEAN Engineering Award
1999	The Outstanding University Researcher Award

Yu Liu – Main Speaker of Regional Experience-II

Associate Chair (Research) of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Co-Director of Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Specialized in “biological processes and advanced environmental biotechnology for wastewater reclamation”.

2003		National Technology Award
2013		The Minister for National Development R&D Merit Award

Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht – Main Speaker of Global Future Development

Professor and Group Leader of Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Member, the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands
Member, the Dutch Academy of Engineering, The Netherlands

Specialized in “biological wastewater treatment, nutrients removal, biofilm systems, Anammox, Sharon process, Granular sludge, process and reactor design and modeling”.

1995		Dutch Water Innovation Award
2007		DOW Energy Award
2008		Grand Award of International Water Association (IWA)
2010		Honorary Doctorate ETH-Zurich
2010		Knighthood in the order of the Dutch Lion
2012		Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize
2013		Simon Stevin Master Award

Bruce E. Rittmann – Main Speaker of Global Future Development

Director and Regents’ Professor, Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University, USA

Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, USA

Specialized in “environmental biotechnology biofilms microbial ecology”.

2011		Excellence in Environmental Engineering Award of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers
2012		Fellow of International Water Association (IWA)
2012		Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
2013		Honorary Member, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
2013		Fellow of Water Environment Federation
2014		Palladium Medal from American Association of Engineering Societies

Peter Cornel – Main Speaker of Global Future Development

Professor, Dr. -ING, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Specialized in “environmental biotechnology, and wastewater treatment technology”.

2013

Willy Hager Medal, the prize is awarded every three years to scientists who have made an outstanding theoretical and practical contribution to water and wastewater treatment.

Jiuhui Qu – Main Speaker of Regional Future Development

Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Academician, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, China

Specialized in “water quality control technology, principal, technology and application for drinking water quality and safety control, water quality risk assessment, and pollution control”.

2004		The Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress
2006		The Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress
2009		Science and Technology Progress Award from The Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
		IWA East Asia Project Innovation Honor Award in Applied Research
2012		The Second Prize of National Science and Technology Invention

Wah-Yuen Long – Main Speaker of Regional Future Development

Chief Specialist for Water Reclamation and the Advisor (Used Water) to PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency

Former Director of Water Reclamation (Plants) Department, Singapore.

Chee-Loong Lay, Winson – Main Speaker of Regional Future Development

Principal Engineer at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant, PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, Singapore

The Changi Water Reclamation Plant is currently the largest used water treatment Plant in Singapore and has a treatment capacity of 800,000 cubic meter per day.

2014

Biographical record in Marquis 31st edition of Who’s Who in the World.

Guang-Hao Chen – Main Speaker of Regional Future Developmentt

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Associate Director, the Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Specialized in “biological wastewater treatment process exploration, sewer iofilm modeling, low-cost MBR, and urine treatment”.

2011		Fellow of International Water Association (IWA)
2012		Huber International Technology Prize of Germany (PhD student)
2012		IWA East Asia Project Innovation Honor Award in Applied Research
2012		IWA Global Grand Project Innovation Honor Award in Applied Research
2012		IWA Sustainability Prize
2012		Finalist of Smart Cities Award in Project Organized Smart City World Congress in Spain