Dr. Daniel Buss is a biologist with a master’s degree in Ecology and a doctorate in Public Health. He is the head of the Climate Change and Environmental Determinants of Health Unit at the Pan American
Health Organization (PAHO), based in Washington, D.C. This unit coordinates PAHO/WHO’s actions in the 35 countries and 18 territories of the Americas on issues such as climate change, air quality,
water, sanitation and hygiene, waste management, chemical safety, and environmental epidemiology and toxicology.

Bettina Rickert is an environmental engineer working with the German Environment Agency. She is the head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for research on drinking-water hygiene, and has more than
14 years of experience in the water sector. She has supported WSP projects and trainings in different settings, including training of WSP facilitators. Furthermore, she supports WHO’s work on smallscale water supplies and on WSP.

Asoka is the Water Quality Specialist at Yarra Valley Water in Melbourne, Australia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master of Engineering (Hons) in Water Management. He is
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka. Asoka has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the Australian Water Association’s Water eJournal, an online hub for high-quality technical water papers in Australia.
Asoka has been working in the water industry for over 40 years. He has been with Yarra Valley Water since 1997. His main areas of expertise include development and implementation of drinking and
recycled water risk management plans (Water Safety Plans), implementation of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system for the drinking water supply system since 1999,
development of strategies to improve water quality in the distribution system, routine water quality monitoring and maintenance programs such as water mains cleaning, reservoir cleaning, regulatory
compliance, regulator and other stakeholder liaison, annual reports, special investigations and staff and contractor training .

Danilo is a Civil Engineer, Hydraulic and Sanitary option and holds a Master degree in Environmental Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He is currently adjunct
Professor of the Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Republic. He was General Manager of State Sanitary Works (OSE) between 2006 and 2015 and
Director of Sanitation of the Municipality of Montevideo between 2015 and 2018. Danilo is author of the books: Biological Risks and Disinfection byproducts and Drinking Water History and sensitivity.

Professor at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de la República. Engineer and Climate Scientist by formation, Dr. Terra has been working for more than
twenty years on climate risk management in the agriculture, water resources and energy sectors.
Rafael Terra is a Civil Engineer, Hydraulic and Sanitary option, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Republic, Uruguay. He has a Doctor degree in Atmospheric Sciences University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA), USA and a Master degree of Atmospheric Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.

Miguel de França Doria was born in Lisbon, where he studied environmental engineering, worked as a water analyst in a quality control laboratory and as a consultant for hydrological environmental
impact assessments. He completed his degree in Environmental Science and holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK). He joined the Secretariat of UNESCO’s
International Hydrological Programme (IHP) in Paris in 2006, where, among other duties, he was Officer Responsible for Water Education and Deputy Secretary of the IHP Intergovernmental Council.
Since 2015, he is the IHP Regional Hydrologist for Latin America and the Caribbean, based at the UNESCO Office in Montevideo.

Eduardo is an economist from the Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción” (Paraguay). He holds a master’s degree in water technology and management from the Polytechnic University of
Catalonia and in Corporate Finance from the European School of Management and Business (Spain).
He is currently working as a Project Specialist at FONPLATA overseeing projects related to the water and sanitation sector in Uruguay and Brazil.
Before joining the bank, he worked for 10 years at the IDB, where he co-led the design of projects and sectoral dialogue to promote better water, sanitation, and solid waste services in Paraguay. He also
led the generation and dissemination of various publications.

Chemical Engineer, graduated from Mackenzie University (São Paulo/Brazil), he has more than 46 years of experience in the water theme. It always works focused on water treatment, its uses, always
seeking to have safe water. Since 1999 he has been working on the subject of the Legionella bacterium In 2009, he developed the concept of a Water Safety Plan for buildings and industries Member of
several technical committees and associations dedicated to the theme of water. He is currently director of the Water Division of NSF and is based in São Paulo, Brazil He conceived and produced two
books: “Legionella na Visao de Especialistas” e “Plano de Seguranca da Agua na visão de Especialistas”

Alexandre has a Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineering and Administration with a focus on Systems Analysis, Specialist in Public Management, and Master’s degree in Aquaculture and Fisheries
from the Institute of Fisheries of the State of São Paulo – APTA. Currently, he is the Manager of the Water Resources Department at the Water Production Business Unit. Since 1998, he has been involved
in the development, research, and control of conventional processes in the sanitation sector, automation of water pumping stations, reservoir management, and environmental management in water
production systems in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. As the Manager of the Water Resources Department, he oversees the qualitative and quantitative management of supply sources and
ensures compliance with the National Water Resources Plan for Sabesp’s dams.

Enrico has a PhD degree in Applied Biochemistry and Chemistry and a MSc degree in Analytical Chemistry. He is currently a Senior researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) and Director
of the functional area “Chemical risk” of the ISS National Centre of Water Safety.