The World Water Congress & Exhibition is curated by a Programme Committee formed by leading experts in water and wastewater from around the world.
2026 Programme Committee Members
Co-chair: Amy Pruden
Virginia Tech, USA
Co-chair: Zhiguo Yuan
City University of Hong Kong
Kartik Chandran
Columbia University, New York City, USA
Simon Parsons
Scottish Water, UK
Blanca Antizar
Isle Utilities
Jason Ren
Princeton University, USA
Eden Mati-Mwangi
World Bank, Kenya
Pabel Cervantes
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Tom Arnot
University of Bath, UK
Lina Taing
Nature for Water, Canada
S.K. Weragoda
National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Sri Lanka
National Water Supply and Drainage Board, Sri Lanka
Farokh Kakar
Brown and Caldwell, Canada
Maite Pijuan
Catalan Institute for Water Research, Spain
Yunho Lee
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
David Ikumi
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Hassimi Abu Hasan
Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Indhumathi Nambi
Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India
Miklos Patziger
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Ximena Quiroz Pita
SUNASS, Peru
Krisztian Márk Balla
Grundfos, Denmark
Kathy Cinque
Melbourne Water, Australia
Kelvin Kuek
Group Engineers Malaysia Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia
Johannes Sirunda
Namibia Water Corporation, Namibia
Weiyan Liu
Beijing Enterprise Water Group, China
Diana Rodriguez Loaiza
University of Antioquia, Colombia