Bart Schultz

Prof. Schultz graduated from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. He also obtained his PhD degree here on the topic `Water Management of the drained lakes in the Netherlands'.

His career includes almost 35 years of research, advising and project implementation in the field of land and water development, drainage, irrigation, environmental engineering and flood management.

The first part of his career he worked as head of the Water Management Division in the IJsselmeerpolders Development Authority.

In addition to his part time appointment at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education he is top advisor in Rijkswaterstaat, Civil Engineering Division. In this capacity he is, among others, responsible for environmental impact studies on major hydraulic works, as well as for advice, design and implementation of large scale environmental engineering and flood management projects.

At UNESCO-IHE, Prof. Schultz is responsible for education and research in Land and Water Development. Under his guidance about 200 overseas participants obtained their Master of Engineering degree (MEng), about 110 participants their Master of Science degree (MSc) and 9 participants their PhD degree.

From September 1999 to July 2002 he was President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).

He is author of more than 190 papers in the field of land reclamation, drainage, irrigation and flood management and editor of several proceedings of National and International Conferences. He is chairman of the Editorial Board of the ISI Science Journals Citation Index listed journal Irrigation and Drainage.

During his career he visited more than 30 countries to: (i) participate in international research; (ii) appraise, evaluate, or advice in projects; (iii) teach in the fields of land reclamation, drainage, irrigation and flood protection projects.

He is a member of the International Water Academy, Oslo, Norway.