| Mr. Adri VERWEY Mr. Verwey has broad experience in river and urban flood management both through fundamental research and software development in these fields and through consultancy projects. Currently he is a ministry appointed member of the Expert Panel on Enhancing Flood Protection in Singapore. During the Bangkok floods of 2011 he advised the Thai authorities on emergency flood management operations. He is also playing a leading role in the development of drainage master plans for (parts of) large cities, such as Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore and São Paulo. Recently he was advisor to the World Bank in the preparation of the drainage master plan for the City of Barranquilla. In the area of research he is the Principal Investigator of an extensive Singapore Delft Water Alliance research project in Singapore entitled “Multi-Objective Multiple-Reservoir Management”. Mr. Verwey has played a key role in software development for hydraulic engineering applications. From 1971 until 1996 he worked as a consultant to the Danish Hydraulic Institute, where he developed the predecessor of the MIKE 11 open channel flow and the MOUSE sewer flow software packages and until 1996 he continued to work as advisor on improved numerical techniques to be implemented into MOUSE and MIKE 11. In association with the consulting firm Haskoning in the Netherlands he developed and applied the generic channel flow modelling software package RUBICON. He also worked on numerical model development and their application on: (1) heat exchangers of nuclear power plants (EDF, France) and (2) gas and oil pipe laying techniques (a.o. Shell). Recently, Mr. Verwey was at Deltares - Delft Hydraulics for more than 7 years responsible for the further development of the generic 1D2D hydraulic, hydrologic and environmental modelling package SOBEK which is being applied in many flood-, drainage-, irrigation-, sewer and wetland system studies all over the world. As a former Associate Professor of Computational Hydraulics at the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (currently UNESCO – IHE), he has wide experience with capacity building, transfer of knowledge and the organisation of course programmes. He gave courses on mathematical modelling and river hydraulics in Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, United States, Guatemala, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Turkey, Yemen and Egypt. He was Team Leader of Capacity Building Projects at the Hydraulics Research Institute in Cairo, Egypt and at the TU Prague, Czech Republic. He published many articles on the development and application of mathematical models with focus on hydraulic engineering and hydrology. Mr. Verwey is one of the authors of the widely referenced book “Practical Aspects of Computational River Hydraulics”. He was the Principal Organiser of the First International Conference on Hydroinformatics, held in Delft in 1994. |