Dr. Saket Pande 

Dr. Saket Pande is a hydrologist and water economist at TU Delft, Netherlands since 2010. He holds a Bachelors of Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2000) and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University, USA (2005). Saket Pande’s project experience include assessment of impacts of climate change on agriculture and health in Benin, anthropogenic influence (grazing) on land degradation and water resource availability in Ethiopia and assimilation and harmonisation of data sets from variety of sources and scales using a software that he co-developed.

At Delft University of Technology, he is involved with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda of the United Nations and is investigating aspects of coupled human-water systems such as adoption of household water treatment systems, links between population growth and water scarcity,behavior of smallholder farming in India, valuation of water in Indian and Lebanese basins, and coupled system modeling of rural-urban migration in Jiangsu province of China. Saket has been closely involved with sociohydrology and Panta Rhei, the past scientific decade (2013-2022) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) on coupled human water systems. Currently Dr. Saket is the Dutch PI of a major water conservation project on smallholder sustainability in India funded by Dutch Enterprise Agency and international PI of a collaborative project with an Indian technical university funded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. He is an associate editor of Journal of Hydrology, chief editor of Frontiers in Water and vice-president of the International Commission of Water Human Feedbacks of IAHS.