**About the Editors**

**William Young** (Dr.) is a Lead Water Resources Management Specialist with the World Bank. He is the Program Manager for the Central Asia Water and Energy Program and leads water resource management and irrigation lending operations in Central and South Asia. He has global oversight of the World Bank's multiple national water security studies. From 2013–2016 he was the Program Manager for the South Asia Water Initiative that supports transboundary water cooperation in the Himalayan river basins of South Asia. Roles prior to joining the World Bank include Director of the CSIRO Water Flagship in Australia, and Director of Basin Modeling at the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor in Water Resource Management at the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Global Water Institute at the University of New South Wales.

**Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep** (Dr.) is a Global Lead for Disruptive Technology and Lead Environmental Specialist at the World Bank. In almost 25 years at the World Bank, he has led and supported several environmental, water, and natural resources operations and analytical support around the world. He has also been a Global Lead for Watersheds, currently co-leads the Bank's HydroInformatics focal area, and leads a Disruptive KIDS (Knowledge, Information & Data Services) Helpdesk. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras), a Master of Science in Environmental and Resource Engineering from Syracuse, and a Ph.D. in Water Resources and Environmental Systems Engineering from Harvard University.
