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ILYAS MASIH
Research Officer
Global Change, Water and Environment Group
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Ilyas Masih has seven years experience as a researcher in the field of water resources management. He has worked on the wide range of water management issues and has worked in multidisciplinary research projects and research teams. His M.Phil. research was on the impact evaluation of shifting groundwater development from public to private sector in SCARP-I area of Pakistan. He worked on the technical aspects such as changes in groundwater table behaviour and groundwater quality as well as participation of farmer communities in the groundwater resources development and management. He developed criteria for the analysis of sustainability of water users associations and studied it for small water user communities. In 2000, he joined Mott MacDonald Pakistan, an engineering consultancy. There he worked as an engineering researcher on impact evaluation study of Punjab Private Sector Groundwater Development Project-a World Bank funded project. For which he worked in teams studying the hydrological, engineering, socio-economic, agricultural and participatory aspects of water resources management in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Since September 2001, Ilyas has been working in International Water Management Institute (IWMI) as a Research Officer. In IWMI he has worked on the different projects related to secondary salinization, water management modelling, water balance and water productivity issues in rice-wheat systems and scaling up water productivity from field to farm to higher scales of irrigation system. He has also used simulation models in his studies (such as SWAP in his research work at IWMI and MODFLOW, CROPWAT, HEC-I and LINDO during M.Sc. studies and SWAT during PhD coursework). He has co-authored 25 research articles published in international journals, as IWMI research reports and in national and international conference proceedings. While working at IWMI, he has presented his research at national and international forums and did travel to various countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Australia, Netherlands, Philippines and Iran. In recent times, he has developed keen interest in studying hydrology and water resources management at river basin scale. He has been awarded IWMI research fellowship to undertake his PhD studies in Iran as an IWMI research staff member. He has stared his PhD research at UNESCO-IHE, Institute of Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, in May 2006 on the issues of basin scale hydrology and water resources management in Karkheh River Basin of Iran.
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This page was last updated on
Friday, October 31, 2008
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