Working Group on Capacity Building, Training and Education (WG-CBTE)

Mandate

To identify and disseminate various structural and non-structural measures of flood management, and to study the social, political and economic aspects of flood mitigation measures, ecologicaly sound development, internatinal cooperation, as well as people's participation in disaster preparedness.

Members

(1) Vice President Dr. Illahi B. Shaikh, Chairman, 2007 (Pakistan, 2001); (2) Mr. V.C. Ballard (Australia, 1992); (3) Dr. Takeshi Hata (Japan, 1993); (4) Dr. Lajos Szlavik (Hungary, 1996); (5) Prof. M.F. Viljoen (South Africa, 1997); (6) Mr. P. Burrows (UK, 1999); (7) Dr. K. Emami (Iran, 1999); (8) Mr. Jin Soo Kim (Korea, 2000); (9) Prof. Josip Petras (Croatia, 2002); (10) Mr. Ahmet Seren (Turkey, 2006); (11) Mr. Maurice Roos (USA, 2006); (12) Prof. dr. Franc Steinman (Slovenia, 2006); (13) Mr. A.K. Ganju (India, 2007); (14) Ir. Jos van Alphen (The Netherlands, 2007); (15) Dr. Jianming Ma (China, 2008); and (16) Secretary General, ICID

Permanent Observers : (1) FAO representative; (2) UNDRO representative; (3) WMO representative; (4) World Bank representative

Observer : (1) Mr. Ahmed Kamal, Acting Secretary (Pakistan, 2008)