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Bushra Mustufa
Butool Naqvi
C Raja Mohan
Carl Jacob Liebersohn
Catherine Ayallore
Cearet Sood
Cecilia Tortajada
Dr Cecilia Tortajada is an Honorary Professor at School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK; Visiting Professor, School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China; and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India.
She has more than 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and consultancy, with a focus on water resources management and its policy, social, economic, and political dimensions. Her current work is on impacts of global challenges on water security.
Dr Tortajada is an elected member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican. In 2024, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in Technology by Aalto University, Finland, in recognition of her significant contributions to research and education in water resources and development. She is also a recipient of the Crystal Drop Award (2016) and the 50th Anniversary Award (2021) from the International Water Resources Association (IWRA).
She serves on several distinguished bodies, including the International Selection Committee of the Millennium Technology Prize (Technology Academy Finland), the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College (UK), and the OECD Initiative on Water Governance.
Professor Tortajada is the former President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and remains the first and only woman to have served as President of the IWRA in its more than 50-year history. A prolific author, her work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
She is Associate Editor of River Journal and serves on the editorial boards of NPJ Clean Water, Water Resources Management, Water International, International Journal of Water Governance, Urban, Planning and Transport Research, and the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research. She also co-edits two book series published by Springer Nature: Water Resources Development and Management, and SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development. Additionally, she is a member of the Series Advisory Board for SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences, Geography & Earth System Sciences.
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Champaka Rajagopal
Champaka Rajagopal is a senior researcher, educator, practitioner, focused on urban policy, governance, planning and infrastructure governance. She is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, India, Professor Affiliae at the Urban School, SciencesPo, Paris, France, Founder, Director of The Entrepreneurship and Partnerships Lab. She also serves as Trustee on the Board of Trustees, IJURR Foundation, UK.
Her research interests lie in investigating state-business relationships, firms, entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on commercial and contract laws, policies, governance, mechanisms directed at privatisation. She draws on experiential learning from her more than two decades of engagement with multi-national corporations and international finance institutions, in India and abroad.
Previously, as part of international consultancy firms, she co-led large statutory plans, including the Draft Development Plan for Greater Mumbai 2034 and Revised Master Plan 2015, Bangalore, where the focus was to remove regulatory rigidity and regulatory capture. In her two decades of practice across cities in the global South and the North, with international donors, national-state governments, businesses, markets and communities she has advanced the design of policies, regulatory processes, instruments and mechanisms that deepen democratic processes and respond to place.
Resulting from practice is her article, Reciprocity as Regulation: Exploring Methodologies in Urban Design for the Historical Pete, Bangalore, published in Ed, Harriss-White, Basile, Lutringer, Mapping India’s Capitalisms, Old and New, Springer, 2015. She has authored book chapters and news articles on problems in urban planning through the years.
Champaka has a doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in Governance, Planning and International Development Studies (2021), a Master’s Degree in Urban Design from the University of California at Berkeley, USA (2002) and an undergraduate degree in the architecture of the built environment from the Centre for Environment Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India (1997).