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Anil Mishra
Programme Specialist
(Global Changes and Water Resources, International Sediment Initiative -
ISI)
Anil Mishra was born in 1966 in Nepal. He has been involved in a number
of international scientific research studies, including education,
capacity building, co-operation and project development programmes in
the fields of hydrology and water resources management in Africa, Asia
and Europe.
He received training as a civil engineer from the Byelorussian State
Polytechnic Academy (Minsk, Belarus) in 1995. He was a lecturer at the
Department of Civil Engineering of Tribhuvan University (Nepal). In
2004, Mr. Mishra obtained his PhD from the Division of Regional
Environment, Kobe University, Japan. Mr Mishra did extensive research on
hydrology and water resources management of the Nile basin in Africa.
The work concentrated on the development of a coupled water balance and
water transport model with GIS application for the Blue Nile river. He
also studied low flows and developed recession flow forecasting models
for the Blue Nile river.
From 2004-2006, Mr Mishra was a recipient of the Blaustein Postdoctoral
Fellowship from the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at
Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
He joined the UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office in Kazakhstan in 2006 as a
hydrology and science officer. He was responsible for planning, managing
and implementation of the IHP in the Central Asia region. He coordinated
activities related to melting glaciers and impacts on water resources in
Central Asia. Since June 2007, Mr Mishra has been transferred to the
section of Hydrological Processes and Climate in the IHP secretariat in
Paris. He is responsible for coordinating activities related to Global
Changes and Water Resources and International Sediment Initiative (ISI)
within the frame work of IHP.
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