Experts: Drought Monitoring, Policy, and Planning

Brian Abrahamson, P.Eng.

Director, Prairie Agroclimate Unit

PFRA - Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

1800 Hamilton Street

Regina, Sakatchewan S4P 4L2

CANADA

Tayeb Ameziane, Ph.D.

Professor of Agronomy

Director, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II

BP 6202 Rabat - Instituts

Rabat, MOROCCO

Reid Basher

Director, Applications Research

International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Columbia University

61 Route 9W, Monell Building

Palisades, NY 10964-8000 USA

Mohamed Bazza, Ph.D.

Senior Irrigation and Water Resources Officer

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Regional Office for the Near East

11 Al Eslah El Zerai Street

P.O. Box 2223

Dokki, Cairo, EGYPT

Dr Linda Botterill

The Australian National University

School of Social Sciences Faculty of Arts

Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA

Antonino M. Cancelliere

Assistant Professor

University of Catania, Italy

Department of Civil and Enviromental Engineering

Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering Section

Viale A. Doria 6 - 95125

Catania, ITALY

Dr. Qamar-Uz-Zaman Chaudhry

Director General

Pakistan Meteorological Deptt.

P.O. Box 1214

Islamabad, PAKISTAN

Ken Day

Principal Research Scientist

Climate Impacts and Grazing Systems

Resource Sciences Centre

Dept. of Natural Resources

Queensland Centre for Climate Applications Bldg.

Gate 4, 80 Meiers Road

Indooroopilly Qld 4068 AUSTRALIA

Alhassane Adama Diallo

Director General

AGRHYMET Regional Centre

CILSS

Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

P.O. Box: 11011, Niamey

NIGER

Thomas Downing

Stockholm Environment Institute

SEI-Oxford Office

Lawrence Annex

2a Polstead Road

Oxford OX2 6TN

UNITED KINGDOM

Peter T. Gilruth

Raytheon Systems Company

C3-I Systems, Synergy Program, Room 3118

1616 McCormick Drive

Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 USA

Michael H. Glantz

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA

David Grey

Lead Specialist, Water Resources Management

Water and Urban I

Africa Region

The World Bank

1818 H Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20433 USA

Dr. Ghassan Hamdallah

Regional Soils Officer

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Regional Office for the Near East

11 El Eslah El Zerai St.

P.O. Box 2223

Cairo, EGYPT

Ana Iglesias, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Center for Climate Systems Research

Columbia University in the City of New York

304 Armstrong Hall

2880 Broadway

New York, NY 10025 USA

C. Kapuyanyika-Bepura, Programme Manager

Southern African Development Community

Regional Food Security Programme

Merchant House (6th Floor)

43 Robson Manyika Avenue

P.O. Box 4046

Harare

ZIMBABWE

Dr. Pak Sum Low, Regional Adviser

Environment and Natural Resources Development Division

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

United Nations Building

Rajadamnern Avenue

Bangkok 10200, THAILAND

Barbara A. Miller, Ph.D., P.E.

Senior Water Resources Management Specialist

Water and Urban

Eastern and Southern Africa

Africa Region

The World Bank

1818 H Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20433 USA

Karl Monnik

Division Manager:Agrometerology

Agroclimatological Research

ARC-LNR Institute for Soil, Climate and Water

600 Belvedere Street

Arcadia

Private Bag X79

Pretoria 0001

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Ray Motha, Chief Meteorologist

USDA

World Agricultural Outlook Board

1400 Independence Ave., SW

Room 5143

Washington, DC 20250-3812 USA

Bruce O'Meagher,General Manager

Industry Policy

Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources

GPO Box 9839

CANBERRA ACT 2601

AUSTRALIA

Dr. Richard N. Palmer

University of Washington

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Seattle, WA 98195-2700 USA

Lene Poulsen

Technical Advisor

UNSO-Office to Combat Desertification and Drought

United Nations Development Programme

One United Nations Plaza

New York, N.Y. 10017 USA

Dr. Roberto A. Seiler

Especialista en Agrometeorologia

Profesor titular - Investigador del CONICET

UNAC Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto

Facultad de Agronomia y Veterinaria

Ruta Nac. 36-Km. 601

5800 Rio Cuarto-Cba. ARGENTINA

Larry D. Simpson

Water Resource Management Consultant

Latin America & the Caribbean Region, LSCES

The World Bank

P.O. Box 268

Loveland, CO 80539 USA

Dr. M.V.K. Sivakumar

Chief, Agricultural Meteorology Division

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

7 bis, Avenue de la Paix

CP 2300 - 1211

Genéve 2 Suisse/SWITZERLAND

A.R. Subbiah, Technical Advisor

Program on Extreme Climate Events

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

P.O. Box 4

Klong Luang

Pathumthani 12120

THAILAND

Sa'ndor Szalai

Hungarian Meteorological Service

P.O. Box 38

Budapest H-1525

HUNGARY

Prof. Dr. László Vermes DSc.

Szent Istvan University

Faculty of Horticultural Sciences

Department of Soil Science and Water Management

H-1118 Budapest, HUNGARY

Villányi st. 35-43

Amy L. Vickers, President

Amy Vickers & Associates, Inc.

Amherst Office Park

441 West Street, Suite G

Amherst, MA 01002 USA

Dr. David White

ASIT Consulting

P.O. Box 328

Hawker, ACT

AUSTRALIA

Dr. Donald A. Wilhite, Director

National Drought Mitigation Center

International Drought Information Center

239 Chase Hall

University of Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0749 USA