Professor Savenije new member of WOTRO Board

25 October 2010

The governing board of NWO has appointed Prof. Huub Savenije (1952) as new member of the Executive Board of WOTRO as of October 1, 2010. Savenije is Professor of Hydrology at the Delft University of Technology, where he is the Head of the Water Resources Section, while maintaining a visiting professorship with UNESCO-IHE.

Savenije studied at the Delft University of Technology, where he obtained his MSc in 1977 in Hydrology. As a young graduate hydrologist he worked for six years in Mozambique where he developed a theory on salt intrusion in estuaries and studied the hydrology of international rivers. From 1985-1990 he worked as an international consultant mostly in Asia and Africa. He joined academia in 1990 to complete his PhD in 1992. In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Water Resources Management at the IHE (now UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education) in Delft. Since 1999, he is Professor of Hydrology at the Delft University of Technology.

In 2008 Savenije received the Henry Darcy Medal of the European Geosciences Union for outstanding contributions to Hydrology and Water Resources Management. In 2010 he received the 'Leermeesterprijs' (Master Award) of the TU Delft, which is an annual award for the most distinguished teacher. Prof. Savenije has published widely in the fields of hydrology, estuary hydraulics and water resource management.