Short Curriculum VitaeProf. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. mult. Janos J. Bogardi

Date of birth: 27 April 1946

Nationalities: German through naturalization, since 1974Hungarian by birth

Marital status: widowed, 2 adult children

Institute Address: Senior Fellow ZEFcCentre for Development Research (ZEF)University of BonnWalter Flex Str. 3; 53113 BonnTelephone: +49 228 736187Email: jbogardi@uni-bonn.de

Private Address: Berg Str. 1453474 Bad Neuenahr-AhrweilerGermanyTelephone: +49 2641 9023820Mobile: +49 162-2067661

Education: 1964 High school final examination. Budapest, Hungary1964-1969 Diploma Degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in civil engineering with special

emphasis on water resources and agricultural water resources development, Technical University of Budapest/Hungary

1971 Post-graduate Diploma, 6th International Post-graduate Course in Hydrology, University of Padua/Italy

1979 Doctorate in civil engineering (Dr.-Ing.)University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Germany

Employment 1969-1971 Assistant (Professor), Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, Institute for Water Resources Management,

(Supervision of students, hydrological research of Lake Balaton, flood studies on small catchments, flood measurements during the Tisza river flood in 1970)

1971 Research Assistant, Technical University of Vienna/Austria, Institute for Hydraulics, Hydrography and Water Resources Management (hydraulic computations)

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1971-1973 Hydrologist, IGIP Consulting Engineers Darmstadt/Germany(Hydrological studies in Algiers for urban drainage incl. 11 months in Algeria, proposals and review of feasibility studies)

1974-1975 Research Associate, Bundesanstalt fur Wasserbau (Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering) Karlsruhe/Germany(hydraulic model studies on cooling water withdrawal and discharge for a planned nuclear power plant in Germany)

1975-1979 Research Associate, (including the duties of an Assistant Professor), University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Institut Wasserbau III. (Hydraulic Engineering III) and Sonderforschungsbereich 80 (Special Research Group 80) (research work on the optimal sequencing and scheduling of the construction of flood control reservoirs, application of systems analysis and operations research techniques in water resources management, tutorials in several subjects, supervising master students, preparing and grading of examinations)

1980-1983 Senior Research Associate, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Institut für Siedlungswasserwirtschaft (Sanitary Engineering) (leading the pilot project water resources management plan for the Leine River Basin in the federal state of Lower Saxony, hydrological studies in Western Africa)

1983-1985 Senior expert for water resources development, hydrology and hydraulic engineering, Agrar- und Hydrotechnik Consulting Engineers GmbH (Ltd) Essen, Germany (Hydrology and climatology studies for the Dodoma region in Tanzania, study of dam sites incl. hydrological dimensioning and water resources utilization studies incl. 6 months in Tanzania, hydrological studies and water resources planning in the Gwembe valley along the Zambezi river, incl. 2 months in Zambia, evaluation of irrigation perimeter plans along the Gambia river in Gambia and Senegal)

1985-1988 Associate Professor for water resources systems engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, (teaching water resources systems analysis and hydrological statistics at master level, research studies in irrigation management, multi criteria decision modelling and reservoir operational studies in Africa and Asia, supervision of master theses and PhD dissertations, member of the ad hoc committee on structuring the doctoral program at AIT (1988), spokesman of the GTZ-Team at AIT (1987-1988). Responsible for the management of the cooperation project (annual turnover approx. half million Euro) and 6 faculty members, organization of a seminar workshop on conflict analysis in reservoir management 1988 with 80 participants, participation in the academic self governance)

1989-1997 Chair Professor for Hydraulics and General Hydrology,

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Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Chairman of the Institute (1989-1991, 1993-1995) (developing research plans, leading the institute, teaching tropical hydrology, decision modelling and hydraulics, water resources management incl. initiating university wide working group on integrated water resources management, intensive cooperation with universities from Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary within the TEMPUS project of EU /total turnover approximately 4 million Euro/, concept development and elaboration of operational strategies and rules for the system of large reservoirs in Tunisia within the framework of the EAU 2000 and GEORE projects, development of integrated water resources management concepts for the Aral Sea Basin, organisation of intensive training courses on multi criteria decision making in water resources management, intensive fund raising, cooperation with TU Delft and IHE Delft)

1995-1997 Leave of absence to join UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

1997-2002 (honorary) Professor in general service with special emphasis on internationalization, Wageningen Agricultural University

1995-2003 Senior Programme Specialist (1995-1997), Chief, Section on Sustainable Water Resources Development and Management (1998-2003), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO),Paris, France, Division of Water Sciences (responsible for water and education, sustainable water resources management, water and society incl. valuing water components of the International Hydrology Programme of UNESCO, in charge for the Aral Sea basin activities of UNESCO between 1998 and 2003, leading the Lesotho Highlands Water Project phase 1a environmental impact assessment, in charge of the first interdisciplinary research endeavour of the five science programmes of UNESCO in the Volga Basin resulting in the “Volga Vision”, developing the concept of the still ongoing project “From Potential Conflicts to Cooperation Potential (PCCP)” of UNESCO, responsible for the project “Capacity needs assessment of the water sector in the Republic of South Africa, between 1998 and 2000, and for the subsequent (still ongoing) FET-Water networking project between 2001-2003 supported by the Flemish Community of Belgium.Organization of international conferences as member of the Water-Education-Training /W-E-T Group of UNESCO, IHE, UNU, World Bank Institute and UNDP/ in 1999, 2001 and 2003 (120, 200 and 240 participants resp.), organization of an international conference “from Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential” in 2002 in Delft, 200 participants, organization of the 3rd Kovacs Colloquium in 1996 /200 participant/, “chief architect” of the transfer of IHE Delft to become the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education

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(1999-2003), in charge of the preparatory committee drafting the science plan of the 6th phase of IHP)

2003-2009 Founding Director , United Nations University Institute forEnvironment and Human Security. Bonn, Germany Between 2007 and 2009 simultaneously also Vice Rector ad interim in Europe of the United Nations University (development of the concept, strategic plans, recruitment and leading the staff of over 60 people (UNU-EHS) and over 100 people (all UNU entities in Bonn as chief academic and administrative officer), leading research in the area of environmental migration, flood risk reduction, vulnerability studies, international partnerships, developing the concept and negotiating with the donors and with UN Water the establishment of the UN Water Decade Programme for Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), supervising PhD students, several invited keynote lectures, numerous television and radio interviews, representing UNU in Europe, in charge of institutional development, incl. new institutes and programmes, developing academic partnerships, representing UNU in the UN Chief Executives Board (CEB) High Level Committee on Programmes and in the IHDP Science Committee, invited UN representative in several committees of the City of Bonn, member of the Executive Committee of UNU 2007-2009). Chair of the Head of Agencies of the UN entities based in Germany (elected function, annual rotation 2006-2007. Retirement from the UN System in July 2009. Between August 2009 and end of 2010 Senior Adviser to the Rector of the United Nations University in charge of donor relations in Germany, development of new institutes in Europe, Mozambique and Indonesia

2009-2012 Executive Officer of the Global Water System Project (GWSP) of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), leading the International Project Office (IPO), hosted by the Centre for Development Research of the University of Bonn. Work plans and event organisations incl. an international conference in 2010 on global catchments (120 participants), policy documents, scientific networking, participation in the international water debate, since 2004 co-opted Professor of Water Resources Management at the Faculty for Agriculture of the University of Bonn with full academic rights (lifetime appointment).

2012-2015 Senior Advisor of the Global Water System Project

Since 2015 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use)

Prizes, awards 2nd prize of the Hungarian Hydrological Society for the diploma thesis (1970)Government Medal for outstanding engagement during the flood protection activities in the Tisza Valley (1970)

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"Ehrensenator Huber-Prize" 1981. Awarded by the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy of the University of Karlsruhe, honouring the best doctoral dissertation (1982)Medals of Honour of the Agricultural University of Nitra, Slovakia (1994, 1995)Medal of Honour of the Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Poland (1995)Medal of Honour of the Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland (1996)Medal of Honour of the Agricultural University of Warsaw, Poland (1996)Doctor honoris causa, Agricultural University of Warsaw, Poland (1996)Doctor honoris causa, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary (1997)Honorary Freeman of the Debrecen University of Agricultural Sciences, Hungary (1998)Medal of Honours of the Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering, Agricultural University of Nitra, Slovakia (2000)Doctor honoris causa, Nizhny Novgorod State University for Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russian Federation (2008)International Cannes Water Prize “Grand Prix des Lumières de l’Eau de Cannes”, France, 2008

Professional and Scientific Functions /mainly at the Asian Institute of Technology, the Wageningen Agricultural University, UNESCO Division of Water Sciences (1985-2003)/

Co-chairman of the Youth Organization of the Hungarian Hydrological Society (1969-1971)Elected member (faculty representative) of the Policy Planning Committee of the AIT Board of Trustees (1986 -1988)Member of the Academic Senate (1987-1988)Member, then, Vice Chairman of the Academic Development and Review Committee (1987-1988)Vice Chairman of the Cluster 'Land Use' (1991-1993)Member, then (1989-1993) Chairman, Admission Committee of Foreign Degree Holders into the PhD Programme of the Wageningen Agricultural University (1993-1998)Initiator and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Integrated Management (7 participating departments) (1990-1995)Associated faculty member Division of Water Resources Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand (1989-1990)Member, Interuniversity Working Party of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering Departments within the ERASMUS Programme of the European Union (1990-1997)Initiator, Coordinator and Contractor of the International Cooperation Forum for East-West Cooperation in the Area of Environment-Water-Agricultural Soils (EWA-Ring) sponsored by the TEMPUS programme of the European Union. Cooperation of 25 universities from 10 European countries (1991-1994)

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Member: UNESCO IHP Phase IV Working Group, Project M-4-3 'Study Experiences with Modern Water Resources Planning and Management Methods Taking into Account Risk Factors'.

Guest professor at the University of Hannover, Continuing Educational Centre for Water Resources Management and Institute for Hydrology, Water Resources Management and Rural Hydraulic Engineering, June 1991

Sabbatical leave in Laxenburg, Austria, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Water Project (Oct-Dec 1994)

Member of the Permanent Working Group "Planning of regional water resources systems" of the German Association for Water Resources (DVWK) (1977-1980)Chairman of the above Working Group (1980-1985)(corresponding) member of the above Working Group (1985-1989)Correspondent of the Revue Internationale des Sciences de l'Eau, Saint FoyQuebec/Canada, for Thailand (1986-1988)Representative of the Netherlands in the IAHS International Commission on Water Resources Systems (1992-1995)Member of the Editorial Board of the following scientific journals:

- Journal of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) (1993-1999)- Water Resources Management (EWRA) (1993- )- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

(ITC) (1999-2003)Country contact representative of International Water Resources Association (IWRA) for the Netherlands (1993-1995)Member of the Executive Committee of European Water Resources Association (EWRA) (1995- 2001)Member of the Section on Education and Professional Development of International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) (1999)Reviewer of several professional and scientific journals and publishers on water resources management, sustainability science and disaster risk reduction (2003-)

Memberships in professional and scientific associations

International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) since 1977International Association of Scientific Hydrology (IASH) since 1990Deutsches Komitee Katastrophenvorsorge e.V. (German Committee for Disaster Reduction) DKKV, since 2004 (serving in ist board between 2009-2011)

Research Areas and Expertise

Hydrology, water resources management, large scale water resources systems, reservoir operation, applied systems analysis, multi criteria decision modelling, water conflicts, water education, floods and water related risk management, environmental migration studies, global water

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issues, university networking, policy – science dialogue, awareness-raising, science management including institutional development

Publications

Approximately 200 printed publications, books, chapters in books, authored or co-authored peer reviewed journal papers (some of them in on-line editions), contributions to professional journals, newspaper articles, interviews and video presentations available on line, institute reports and publications in conference proceedings, editorials and forewords. Several institutional publications without specification of authors

Experience in academic supervision

Master theses and PhD supervision, University of Karlsruhe, Asian Institute of Technology Wageningen Agricultural University, University of Bonn

Completed PhD Procedures:

Two PhD graduations at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok/Thailand (1989, 1990)Nationality of the graduates: Chinese, Thai

Six PhD graduations at the Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands (1992, 1993, 1995, 1998 twice, one with distinction, 2001)Nationality of the graduates: two Sri Lankan, Dutch, Portuguese, Yugoslavian, Hungarian

Five PhD graduations at the University of Bonn, Faculty of Agriculture (2009-2015)Nationality of the graduates: two Germans, one Indonesian, two Vietnamese

External examiner or member of the Examination Board in habilitation or/and PhD procedures and MSc examinations at the:

University of Karlsruhe, Germany (MSc)Asian Institute for Technology, Bangkok, Thailand (MSC, PhD)Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands (MSc, PhD)Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands (PhD)IHE Delft (now UNESCO-IHE), the Netherlands (MSc)University of Queensland, Australia (PhD)Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany (habilitation, PhD))Agricultural University of Warsaw, Poland (habilitation)University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (MSc)

University of Karlsruhe: 11 MSc theses (1977 - 1984)all students were German

Asian Institute of Technology: 14 MSc theses (1985 - 1988)Nationality of the students: Indonesian, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Nepalese

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Wageningen Agricultural University: 17 MSc theses (1990 - 1994)Nationality of the students: Dutch, Spanish, Yugoslavian, Portuguese, Greek, Romanian, Hungarian, and Czech.

University of Bonn: 1 MSc thesis (2011)Nationality of the student: Afghan

Languages Hungarian (mother tongue), English, German, Dutch, French (Passive or elementary knowledge of: Afrikaans, Russian, Thai and Italian)

ResidencesLived in 9 countries in three continents more than 6 months: Hungary, Italy, Austria, Germany, Algeria, Tanzania, Thailand, the Netherlands and France, visited over 60 countries on professional mission in all continents

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