Conference Committee | RCCC 2026 – Regional Climate Change Conference

Conference Commitee

Conference Convenors

Prof. Roshanka Ranasinghe

Lead Author - IPCC AR7 WGI
Expert Scoping Team - IPCC AR7 WGI
Coordinating Lead Author - IPCC AR6 WG I
Professor of Climate Change Impacts and Coastal Risk, IHE Delft
Senior Specialist, Deltares
Delft, The Netherlands

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Prof. Erika Coppola

Coordinating Lead Author - IPCC AR7 WGI
Expert Scoping Team - IPCC AR7 WGI
Special Report on Climate Change and Cities SR Lead Author
Lead Author - IPCC AR6 WGI
Associate Professor
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste, Italy

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Senior Conference Coordinator

Dr. Janaka Bamunawala

Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
Tohoku University
Japan

Scientific Steering Committee

Dr. ir. Trang Minh Duong

Coastal Climate Impacts
Modelling Specialist
Water Engineering & Management
Faculty of Engineering Technology
University of Twente
The Netherlands

Dr. Ir. Ali Dastgheib

Innovation Manager
International Marine and Dredging Company (IMDC)
Belgium

Dr. Ir. William Veerbeek

Urban Climate Adaptation Specialist
Deputy Chair UNESCO IHP Megacities
Alliance for Water and Climate WG
Department of Coastal and Urban Risk & Resilience
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Delft, The Netherlands

Dr. Sebrian Beselly

Coastal Eco-geomorphological
Modelling Specialist
Water Resources Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering
Head of the Centre for International Academic Services
Universitas Brawijaya
Indonesia

Dr. Rita Nogherotto

Lead Author - IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities
Scientific Consultant - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
Researcher - The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC)
Bologna, Italy

Prof. Michelle Simões Reboita

Co-Chair: American Monsoons
WG - WCRP/WMO
Member: Tropical Meteorology Research
WG - WWRP/WMO
Member of Degrees Initiative - SRM Studies
Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI),
Itajubá - MG, Brazil

Dr. Chatuphorn Somphong

Coastal Hazard Modeling and Disaster
Mitigation Specialist
Department of Water Resources Engineering,
Kasetsart University,
Bangkok, Thailand

Prof. Paola Arias

Coordinating Lead Author - IPCC AR7 WG1
Expert Scoping Team – IPCC AR7 WGI
Lead Author – IPCC AR6 WGI
Escuela Ambiental
Facultad de Ingeniería
Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín, Colombia

Scientific Committee

Dr. Niranjika Wijesooriya

The University of Sydney
Australia

Dr. Roman Tandlich

Stenden South Africa
South Africa

Dr. Rajeswari Jayarajan Roshini

Senior Research Associate, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Qatar

Dr. Rachna Jain

CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
India

Dr. Parimal Kumar Roy

Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre
Bangladesh

Dr. Assela Pathirana

IHE Delft Institute for water education
Netherlands

Dr. Nivin Abdelmeguid

Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
Egypt

Dr. Sunge Regret

University of The Free State
South Africa

Dr. Edwin Wanjawa

Pwani University
Kenya

Prof. RONALD L. ORALE

Samar State University
Philippines

Dr. Murukesan Krishnapillai

College of Micronesia-FSM Micronesia
Micronesia

Dr. Vinod Kumar

Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology
India

Dr. Sharaniya Vijitharan

University of Vavuniya
Sri Lanka

Prof. P. Parth Sarthi

Central University of South Bihar
India

Dr. Shaukat Ali

Global Climate-Change Impact Study Centre, Ministry of Climate Change
Pakistan

Dr. Kakoli Banerjee

Central University of Odisha
India

Prof. Sergio Quiroga

ICAES
Argentina

Dr. Gideon Uchechukwu Nwafor

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University
Nigeria

Dr. Mahmoud Okasha

Rice Mechanization Center (RMC)
Meet El-Deeba, Agricultural Engineering
Research Institute (AEnRI)
Agricultural Research Center (ARC)
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
Egypt

Dr. Lalit Upadhyay

Scientist Agroforestry
Sher E Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology Jammu
India

Dr. Monu Bhardwaj

Graphic era Hill University
India

Dr. David Nartey Obemah

Department of Environmental Science
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi
Ghana

Prof. Saif Said

Aligarh Muslim University
India

Dr. Christos Fountoukis

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
Qatar

Assist. Prof. Chirag Dhara

Krea University
India

Dr. Binay Kumar Chakraborty

Guest Professor
Bangladesh Agricultural University
Bangladesh

Assist. Prof. Bui Viet Hung

University of Science
VNU-HCMC
Viet Nam

Dr. Sachin Tiwale

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
India

Dr. Jee Eun Choi

Yonsei University/ Institute of East and West Studies
Republic of Korea

Dr. Kazumitsu Muraoka

Japan International Cooperation Agency
Japan

Dr. Mylene G. Dinglasan

Philippine Christian University
Philippines

Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Abdul-Razzak

Ministry of Water Resources
Iraq

Dr. Shuchi Gupta

CCS University,Meerut Uttar Pradesh
India