Jan Leentvaar

Jan Leentvaar joined UNESCO-IHE as part-time professor in Water Quality Management in 2003. At the same time he is director chief inspector of the Water Management Inspectorate of the Netherlands, part of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.

He has extensive professional experience in integrated water resources management obtained during his professional career. He was part-time professor Integrated Water Resources Management at Wageningen University, Director of Water Pollution Control and International Relations and Director of Research at RIZA, the Dutch Institute for Inland Water Management and Water Pollution Control and head of the Delta department at the Institute for Tidal Water Management.

He was chairman and member of several working groups of the international Rhine and Meuse Committees, Netherlands representative in the international Committee on the Hydrology of the Rhine and member in several UNESCO working groups.

He carried out several projects in institutional and water quality management in India, Malaysia, Egypt, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine and Russia.