Development Aspects Impressum Editors

Gupta, Rajiv Kumar

IAS, Government of Gujarat, India

Dr. Rajiv Kumar Gupta belongs to the elite Civil Service in India known as In- dian Administrative Service. It forms the core of the administrative system in the country. With vast national and international professional experience, he has held various senior positions like Collector & District Magistrate Vadodara, Sabarkantha and Mehsana, Executive Director Sardar Sarovar Nigam, Managing Director Tour- ism, Secretary, Water Resources, Commissioner (Higher & Technical) Education, etc. He has also been Advisor in the GAP Project of the Prime Ministry, Turkey, es- pecially working on one of the world’s largest multi-sectoral (water, hydro power, social and industrial) integrated infrastructure development projects. Currently he is Principal Secretary, Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat.

Indij, Damian

Latin America Water Education & Training Network, LA-WETnet

Damian Indij is a knowledge management specialist for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). He is team leader for and author of various IWRM training manuals and network management tools and has worked as lecturer and trainer in courses in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. With a background as Licentiate in Business Administration, he specialized and earned an MSc in Education and did a Postgraduate in Management of Non-Profit Organizations. As manager for the Latin America Water Education & Training Network (LA-WETnet), he has coordi- nated more than 46 capacity-building courses in partnership with 77 local, regional and international organisations since 2002.

Lentini, Emilio

ECLAC
Federal Ministry
for Economic Cooperation and Development

Emilio Lentini is an economist at the University of Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argenti- na, professor and researcher at CETA (Center for Transdisciplinary Studies of Water, University of Buenos Aires, UBA), member of the International Research Network (GDRI), of “Water, Cities and Lands” (Wat-Cit-Ter) as well as “Governance and access to water in the Americas” of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) of France and UBA. He is an expert and conducts research in the field of economic regulation of water and wastewater services. He also works as consult- ant at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and is a member of the International Editorial Board of International Water As- sociation (IWA) for the Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development.