World Congress on
Climate Change

Vladimir Grachev started his career in 1960s as an engineer at Compressor Plant; later he held a chair at the Penza State Polytechnical Institute. In 1990 he was elected a Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education and Training at the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation. Later Grachev was the Chief of the Federation Council’s Committee on Science, Culture, Education, Health and Ecology. In 1999-2007 he was elected a deputy of the State Duma, the Chairman of the Committee on Ecology. Now he has been the Adviser to the Director General of Rosatom. Main research area is physic-chemical technological bases of non-organic materials. V.A. Grachev is an honorary member of the PACE, Chairman of the Public Council under Rostekhnadzor, member of the Commission for UNESCO, President of Vernadsky Nongovernmental Ecological Foundation.

Science, Culture, Education, Health and Ecology

Deepak Khare has been working in the area of Water Resources Management, Climate Change, Water Resources & Crop Planning in Canal command etc. He has published more than 200 research papers and guided 18 Ph.D. theses and 90 M.Tech dissertations. Received many awards, prominent ones are four (04) national awards. Also received Outstanding Teacher Award by IIT Roorkee and ‘Global Water Leadership Award”, 2016. He has made significant contributions in water management strategies for water resources projects and optimal utilization of surface & ground water to achieve optimal cropping pattern, which yields maximum crop yield.

His present area of interests is mainly related to climate change studies for water resources projects, river basin, canal command, urban water management etc.

Dr. Ashutosh Mohanty did his PhD on Environmental Governance from Utkal University under Advisory and Research support from Prof Michael H. Glantz, Colorado State University, USA and MSc. in Urban Environmental Management at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand with USAID fellowship. He did his Master of Public Administration, Disaster Management and LAW from Utkal University and he is recipient of United National fellowship for Leadership (UNU-ILI) from Amman, Jordan. Last 15 years he has been working and Associate with number of Disaster Management Programme and Projects in Nepal, Mongolia, Srilanka, Afghanistan, India ,China and Bhutan both technical and humanitarian aspects which could give me advantage to serve professionally and deliver my best towards this role . He is Recently associate with Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh as Director and Chair – Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Department, Center of Research on Himalayan Sustainability and Development, (CRHSD) and in his last academic assignment was Assistant Professor and director of Truman Graduate School-Public Administration Affairs, Joint Programme of University of Missouri (Truman School of Public Affairs) USA at Mongolia International University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Before joining he was worked as Team Leader CEED-DRR programme and World Bank supported SMEs Development Programme for South Asia . He was also served as Visiting faculty for Master’s studies at International humanitarian and social work programme, Department of Christian Social Work, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. served as Regional Capacity Development Officer at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal and coordinated research based University network called as Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) under International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD, Kathmandu).

specialization on Highland Mountain Hazards, Coastal Hazard, Multi Hazard Early Warning System (Hydro logical and Meteorological), Super Storm/Cyclone/ Tornado and River Basin Management.

Abdelhakim Hassabou is a scientist in solar energy at the Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute (QEERI), HBKU, Qatar Foundation. He has a PhD. in mechanical power engineering, and he has extensive industrial experiences in solar and renewable energy applications as well as seawater desalination and green agricultural technologies for more than 25 years. He joined QEERI in 2012 after working 7 years at the solar research center of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

His research interests are focused on advancing solar energy for a wide range of applications in both photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal technologies beyond current trends. Particular research interests focus on solar and district cooling, efficient processes, integrated polygeneration systems, solar desalination, solar heating and large scale energy storage. He is the Academic Program Director of Postgraduate Studies in Renewable Energy Management at Cambridge Corporate University (CCU) in Switzerland.