Distinguished Lecture Series : Global Water Security – Integrated Water Resources Management

Distinguished Lecture Series

Roger Falconer is Emeritus Professor of Water Engineering and Founding Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University. He has been involved in a wide range of research contracts on hydro-environmental modelling and his models have been used in over 100 Environmental Impact Assessment studies worldwide. He has published over 400 papers in journals and conference proceedings and has given over 530 presentations to a range of learned societies and universities world-wide on hydro-environmental modelling, including: water security, water quality, flooding and tidal energy. Roger is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He is also an Honorary Member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) and Past President of IAHR (2011-15). He has received many awards for his work including the RAEng Silver Medal (1997) and the IAHR Ippen Award (1991). He Chaired the Civil Engineering Sub-Panel in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework and consults regularly on projects world-wide on flooding and environmental assessment impact studies.