Organisation

Organizing Committee
Peter Vanrolleghem
Lina Belia
Yves Comeau
Lluís Corominas
Ronald Droste
Thomas Hug
Bruce R. Johnson
Marc-André Labelle
Günter Langergraber
Paul Lessard
Sudhir Murthy
Jan Oleszkiewicz
Leiv Rieger
Oliver Schraa
Andy Shaw
Imre Takács
Kris Villez
modelEAU, Université Laval, Québec, Canada (chair OC)
Primodal Inc., Québec, Canada
École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada
modelEAU, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
CH2M Hill, Denver, CO, USA
École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada
BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
DC WASA, Washington D.C., USA
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
modelEAU, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Hydromantis, Hamilton, Canada
Black & Veach, USA/Australia
EnviroSim, Flamborough, Canada
modelEAU, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Supporting Organizations
Supporting WEF committees
• Modelling Expert Group of the Americas (MEGA, chair: I. Takács) as a sub-committee of the Municipal Wastewater Treatment Design Committee (MWWTDC, contact: B.R. Johnson)
Supporting IWA Specialist and Task Groups
• Specialist Group on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment (SAIA, chair: P.A. Vanrolleghem)
• Specialist Group on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA, chair: Z. Yuan)
• Specialist Group on Nutrient Removal and Recovery (chair: J.A. Oleszkiewicz)
• Specialist Group on Anaerobic Digestion (chair: J. Van Lier)
• Task Group on Good Modelling Practice – Guidelines for Use of Activated Sludge Models (GMP, chair: L. Rieger)
• Task Group on Benchmarking of Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment Plants (BSM, chair: U. Jeppsson)
Local Professional Associations

• Réseau Environnement, Québec, Canada
• Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ)


Scientific Committee

To foster young water professionals and to introduce them to the work of scientific committees, every senior member has been invited to nominate a young and promising water professional to be connected to him/her within the program committee. These two have to come up with a single answer to questions related to the programme set-up and they also have to write the reviews together.
Senior Member Young Water Professional
Leiv Rieger, Canada (chair SC) Dirk Muschalla, Germany
Bruce R. Johnson, USA (vice-chair SC)
Joshua P. Boltz, USA
Eduardo Ayesa, Spain
Paloma Grau, Spain
James Barnard, USA
Heather Phillips, USA
Damien Batstone, Australia
Ingmar Nopens, Belgium
Ken Brischke, USA
Christy White, UK
Yves Comeau, Canada
Dwight Houweling, Canada
John Copp, Canada
Kris Villez, Belgium
Glen Daigger, USA
Dimitrios Katehis, USA
Peter Dold, Canada
Alexandre Gali, Spain
George Ekama, South Africa
David deHaas, Australia
Karim Essemiani, USA
Pascal Boisson, France
Sylvie Gillot, France
Jean-Marc Choubert, France
Willi Gujer
TBD
Mogens Henze, Denmark
Laurent Lardon, Denmark
Norbert Jardin, Germany
Norbert Weissenbacher, Austria
Ulf Jeppsson, Sweden
Erik Lindblom, Denmark
David J. Kinnear, USA
Gurkan Sin, Denmark
Nancy Love, USA
Kartik Chandran, USA
Doug Lumley, Sweden
Johanna Söderström, Sweden
Henryk Melcer, USA
Jose Jimenez, USA
Eberhard Morgenroth, USA
Doris Brockmann, USA
Daniel A. Nolasco, Argentina
Albert Guisasola, Spain
Maureen O’Shaughnessy, USA
Anne-Emmanuelle Stricker, Canada
Takayuki Ohtsuki, Japan
Yasuhiro Iwata, Japan
Jean-Philipe Steyer, France
Benoît Beraud, France
Imre Takács, Canada
Ana-Julia Pena-Tijerina, USA
Mark van Loosdrecht, The Netherlands
Carlos M. Lopez-Vazquez, The Netherlands
Peter Vanrolleghem, Canada
Hiroki Itokawa, Japan
Stefan Winkler, Austria
Joaquim Comas, Spain
Zhiguo Yuan, Australia Jorge Rodríguez Rodríguez, UK