Adelina Santos-Borja
Philippines
Chair, Southeast Asian Limnological Network (SEALNet)
The Scientific Committee is composed of internationally renowned scientists and experts in the field of lake basin management and conservation, and plays a vital role in promoting and implementing scientific matters that support ILEC’s objectives. Members of the Committee, drawn from around the world, work together not only to address issues in their own regions but also to tackle global lake environment challenges. The Committee is reconstituted every three years, with one term lasting three years, and is organized with a Chairperson, up to two Vice-Chairpersons, and up to three Bureaus. The members of the 15th term (from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028) are as follows.
Chair
Vice Chair
Ajit Kumar Pattnaik
India
Senior Scientific Advisor at the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India
Colin Maxwell Finlayson
Australia
Adjunct Professor in the Gulbali Institute for Agriculture, Water & Environment at Charles Sturt University
Bureau Member
Member
Yoshihisa Shimizu
Japan
Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Alejandro Juarez Aguilar
Mexico
Managing Director, Institute Corazon de la Tierra (Heart of the Earth), Guadalajara
Tiina Nõges
Estonia
Professor of hydrobiology at Chair of Hydrobiology and Fishery, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences
Masatsugu Takamatsu
Japan (currently residing in the United States)
Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist in the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, and Land Unit for the Europe and Central Asia Region at the World Bank
Hillary Masundire
Zimbabwe (currently residing in Botswana)
Managing Director, Sustainable Climate Solutions (Pvt) Ltd
Kenneth Irvine
Ireland (currently residing in the Netherlands)
Emeritus Chair of Aquatic Ecosystems, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Roberto Urutia
Chile
Dean of Environmental Sciences Faculty at the University of Concepcion
Melissa McCracken
USA
Assistant Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Tufts University
Former Members
- Dr. Masaaki Naito [Japan] (Ex-officio)
- Prof. Xiangcan Jin [China]
- Dr. Mohan Kodarkar [India]
- Dr. Chris H. D. Magadza [Zimbabwe]
- Dr. Eric Odada [Kenya]
- Prof. Saburo Matsui [Japan]
- Prof. Sven Erik Jorgensen [Denmark]
- Prof. Tatsuo Kira [Japan]
- Ms. Dianne Dumanoski [USA]
- Dr. Anders Jagerskog [Sweden]
- Prof. Nii Boi Ayibotele [Ghana]
- Ing. Conrado E. Bauer [Argentina]
- Dr. Riccardo De Bernardi [Italy]
- Prof. James P. Bruce [Canada]
- Ing. Alberto T. J. Calcagno [Argentina]
- Dr. Madhave Atmaram Chitale [India]
- Dr. Sven Evteev [Kenya]
- Prof. Takeshi Goda [Japan ]
- Prof. Genady N. Golubev [Russia]
- Dr. Steve Halls [Japan]
- Prof. Michio Hashimoto [Japan]
- Prof. Liu Hongliang [China]
- Dr. Sidharth Kaul [India]
- Dr. Triloki Nath Khoshoo [India]
- Prof. Heinz Loeffler [Austria]
- Prof. Ferenc Mate [Hungary]
- Prof. Kenneth Mavuti [Kenya]
- Dr. Richard A. Megank [Netherland]
- Prof. Mambillikalathil G. K. Menon MP [India]
- Dr. Michel Meybeck [France]
- Prof. Jurgen Overbeck [Germany]
- Prof. Pieter van der Zaag [Netherlands]
- Prof. Sanga Sabhasri [Thailand]
- Prof. Janos Salanki [Hungary]
- Prof. Milan Straskraba [Czech Republic]
- Prof. Richard Thomas [Canada]
- Prof. Jose Galizia Tundisi [Brazil]
- Prof. Richard A. Vollenweider [Canada]
- Prof. Robert George Wetzel [USA]
- Prof. Gilbert F. White [USA]
- Prof. William David Williams [Australia]
- Prof. Masahisa Nakamura [Japan]
- Prof. Nikolai Aladin [Russia]
- Dr. Richard Denis Roberts [Canada]
- Prof. Luigi Naselli-Flores [Italy]
- Prof. Tsugihiro Watanabe [Japan]
- MSc. Juan Skinner [Guatemala]
- Prof. Salif Diop [Senegal]
- Dr. Zhengyu Hu [China]
- Walter Rast[USA]
- Sandra Azevedo[Brazil]
- Daniel Olago[Kenya]