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UPALI AMARASINGHE
Senior Researcher
IWMI India (Hyderabad)
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Upali Amarasinghe has 19 years of working experience in an international research organization. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr. Amarasinghe has joined the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in 1992 as a data analyst, and has since been promoted to a senior research associate/statistician in 1997 and to a senior regional researcher/statistician in 2001. Currently he is a senior international researcher based in IWMI office in Hyderabad. Dr. Amarasinghe has conducted research on assessing water footprints, impacts and sustainability issues; poverty mapping and water-poverty analysis; river basin, national and global food and water supply and demand modelling; performance and impacts assessment in irrigation systems; and issues in water resources management. Dr. Amarasinghe also has extensive experience in managing large research projects in India and Sri Lanka and work experience in other countries including China, Malaysia and Pakistan. A highlight of project management is his stint as the project leader of a large and complex research project “Strategic Analyses of India’s National River Linking project (NRLP)â€. This project brought out 6 book volumes of over 75 research articles on various issues of Indian irrigation and the NRLP. He lead the IWMI team that developed PODIUMSim-policy dialogue tool for water supply and demand modelling at the river basin level, and was a member of the IWMI team that developed the policy dialogue model- PODIUM. He has conducted several training programs on PODIUMSIM to participants in India, Pakistan, South Africa, Iran and Central Asia. Dr. Amarasinghe has published over 65 research articles. |
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Friday, July 29, 2011
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