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Organization : The International Institute For Applied Systems Analysis
Acronym: : IIASA
Nationality of the organisation of establishment : Austria Year of establishment : 1972
college to which your organisation belongs to :
College 5:Professional and academic organisations
Scope of your organisation : International
 Are you organiation's activities focused primarily on water and sanitation ? : Yes No
Please indicate your organisation's field(s) of expertise and activities :
  • Water resources management
  • Basic Human needs or health
  • Development or infrastructure
  • Climate or natural hazards
  • Environment or ecosystems
  • Water supply or sanitation
  • Agriculture or food production
  • Human rights or social issues
  • Education or capacity building
  • Human settlements or habitats
  • Regulation and governance
  • Economics or finance
  • Research or development
  • Energy or industry
  • Media awareness
  • International cooperation or humanitarian relief
You may specify your activities by providing a list of more precise keywords:
Pathways to Sustainable Water Futures for both resource and demand elements using global and regional models together with stakeholder informed scenarios
Description of your Organisation's activities : IIASA's Water Program works across various water-related sectors and management scales. It studies a range of possible future socioeconomic changes and technological innovations. To do this researchers develop and use cutting edge integrated assessment models and use these together with stakeholder generated scenarios. The program seeks to incorporate water science into assessment and planning studies at the nexus of water, food, energy, and environmental security. Its aim is to establish a critical mass of water knowledge through development of new modeling tools and data collection. Currently we are working on an open sourced model- The Community Water Model (CWATM) and have also just published a continental scale Hydro Economic Model (ECHO). Through this work we aim to: - compile, consolidate, and enhance knowledge of global and sub-continent, transboundary water supply and demand balances -incorporate hydrology and hydrologic uncertainty into integrated assessment modeling efforts and scenario development -provide a sound scientific basis for responding to current and future global water challenges by assessing the robustness and complementarity of portfolios of potential solution s and their pathways -provide space to build and enhance capacity in partner organisations and individuals.

Governor representative :
First Name : Simon Last Name : Langan
Title : Dr. Position : Director, Water Program and Water Futures
Nationality : United Kingdom Gender : Male Female
Email : langan@iiasa.ac.at
background : Simon Langan, PhD, is the Director of IIASA’s Water Program and the Water Futures and Solutions Initiative. He joined IIASA after leading a large research for development office in East Africa (for the International Water Management Institute, IWMI). His background academic training and experience grew from his doctoral degree in land use and water quality from the University of St. Andrews, UK. His PhD was followed by a three year post-doctoral fellowship in Imperial College, London, UK. His subsequent project and organizational experience has been with various international organizations and centered on a multi/interdisciplinary approach. His areas of interest lies in generating and providing evidence to underpin improving policy and practice relating to the role of changing land use on water quality as well as the broader topics of river functioning and integrated water resource management at a watershed scale. Throughout his career, Dr. Langan has won grants and secured funding from regional and international donor projects from a wide variety of sources. Dr. Langan has an extensive number of publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as experience in policy-related analyses, including over 160 papers, technical reports, books/chapters and conference proceedings. From a management view, he has the drive to inspire and lead teams of researchers from different disciplines and various nationalities towards achieving higher goals, from research to implementation.

Alternate representative :
First Name : Yoshi Last Name : Wada
Title : Prof. Dr. Postion : Deputy Director Water Program
Nationality : Austria Gender :
Email : langan@iiasa.ac.at
background : Dr. Yoshihide Wada is Deputy Director of the Water Program at IIASA. He is also a senior research associate at the Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, an adjunct research scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, USA, and an adjunct professor at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, China. Dr. Wada obtained his PhD degree with distinction at Utrecht University in October, 2013. His completed PhD projects include estimating global water use and water availability by using a global hydrological and water resources model. His work also includes estimating and projecting global water scarcity, and assessing the sustainability of global groundwater resources. Presently, he leads science development at the Water program at IIASA and his current research projects include a global assessment of sustainable solutions achieving SDGs under socioeconomic and climate change, and increasing water scarcity, Water Futures and Solutions initiative, the inter-sectoral climate change impacts assessments (ISIpedia), supporting risk assessment and adaptation at multiple spatial scales (COMICC), European climate prediction system (EUCP). Dr. Wada has participated in and led a number of international projects including European Global Water Scarcity Information Service Project, Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project, Land Modelling Intercomparison Project, World Resources Institute Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, and Global Earth Observation for Integrated Water Resource Assessment. He has also involved in in the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is one of the recipients of the Horton (Hydrology) Research Grant by the American Geophysical Union (AGU; 2012) and European Geoscience Union, Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists (2018). He has also been awarded the prestigious Hydrological Award from the Dutch Hydrological Society (NHV; 2017), the NICE STEP (NISTEP) Award from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) and National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (2017), and the Young Scientist Prize from the MEXT (2018). Dr. Wada has been invited to more than 100 conferences worldwide. He is an associate editor of Water Resources Research (AGU) and Hydrological Research Letters. Dr. Wada has (co)authored about 150 publications, 100 of which appeared in international peer-reviewed journals. The citation of these peer-reviewed papers exceeds 1200 each year

Organisation statement:
Please describe the involvement of your organisation within the World Water Council and state how long it has been involved in World Water Council activities : IIASA has taken a proactive role in supporting some of the ongoing initiatives of the WWC over the last couple of years, most noticeably through Dr.Simon Langan, specifically: We attended the WWF8 planning meetings and became co-convenor with UNESCO and others of the 'Sharing' theme. Through this and the follow up we helped shape the individual sessions and presentations. At WWF8 itself provided input to the sessions and helped with the concluding statement. IIASA have also participate in the IWRM task force meeting and report preparation. We have also had initial discussions around a potential members initiative on our Water Futures and Solutions initiative. Most recently we took a proactive part in the discussions at Stockholm World water Week last month on the WWC Strategy Document 2019-2021. Overall, since Langan arrived at IIASA and took over many of the aspects of work with the Council initiated by Bill Cosgrove we have tried to (and largely achieved) representation at all Council meetings.
For what reasons do you wish your organisation to have a seat on the Board of Governors ? In short IIASA feels it could well support the work of the Council acting as an ambassador for WWC initiatives and promoting awareness and uptake of these. IIASA could also provide input on the continued development and identification of emerging issues of interest to WWC and its members. In a bit more detail: A core competency of IIASA is to create impartial evidence and to build capacity through partnerships in developing and sharing this knowledge. In undertaking such work we recognise the imperatives of being part of a wider coalition with similar goals-to mobilise action to bring about change in water management. It is our belief that through taking an active role in the continued development of WWC as a governor of the Council IIASA could share its research and research diplomacy experience as well as acting more broadly as an ambassador for the overall work of the Council. As an organisation involved at the cutting edge of research and capacity building we would be able to bring to the table areas of growing concern that WWC and it's members may wish to discuss as potential new initiatives. In relation to this we would be happy and more than willing to share research outputs on a range of issues of common interest between IIASA and WWC, for example, thinking on water, energy, food nexus, potential pathways for water secure futures, etc. With it's global remit and work IIASA can also act as a partner in communicating current thinking and developments coming out of the WWC and promote this widely in research and policy circles.