Huub Savenije

Prof. Savenije was born in 1952 in the Netherlands and studied at the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, 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, the Netherlands. Since 1999, he is Professor of Hydrology at the Delft University of Technology, where he is the head of the Water Resources Section, while maintaining a visting professorship with UNESCO-IHE.

Prof. Savenije has published widely in the fields of hydrology, estuary hydraulics and water resource management. Recently he published a book on "Salinity and Tides in Alluvial Estuaries". He is chief executive editor of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) and editor in chief of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. He is Past-President of Hydrological Sciences of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). He has organised several regional and international water conferences, and has wide-ranging experience in Africa, Asia and South America.

His main publications cover 2 fields:

• Hydrology
• Water Resources Management

At the TUDelft Prof. Savenije can be reached by:

Email:h.h.g.savenije@tudelft.nl
Telephone: +31 15 2781433

• Publications