Seetharam Kallidaikurichi Easwaran is an internationally recognized expert with over 20 years of professional experience in development cooperation, infrastructure, integrated planning for economic growth, participatory social development, diplomacy, and Human Values.

He is currently Visiting Professor and the founding Director of the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He is seconded from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) where he was the Principal Water Supply and Sanitation specialist, and a focal point guiding ADB’s operations in water supply, sanitation and wastewater management in line with ADB’s Water Policy.

Seetharam is also a board director of the Asia Infrastructure Project Development Company, an innovative joint‐venture between ADB and Singapore water companies, to expeditiously prepare public‐private‐partnership water projects in the PRC worth nearly $1 billion by 2013. Seetharam obtained his Doctor of Engineering in Regional Planning and Transportation, (Monbusho Scholar) University of Tokyo, Japan; Master in Industrial Engineering and Management (Most Outstanding Student, President’s Award; President, Student Union) Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand; and Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, (All India Rank 4) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
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