JIAN-HUA MENG

CHAIR, civil society

Senior Sustainable Hydropower Advisor, WWF

Prof. Dr Jian-hua Meng is a senior sustainable hydropower advisor for WWF International. He is working on sustainable water infrastructure, specifically on hydropower, both at the technical and policy level, and through field support for WWF freshwater programmes.

He is a member of the Governance Committee of the Hydropower Sustainability Council since 2011. Before joining WWF in 2008, he worked as an engineer and project manager with a consulting group in Germany, planning and implementing water and urban infrastructure projects, river restoration, flood protection, and energy projects. Prior to that, he was a lecturer and research member at Technische Universität Berlin.

Dr Meng holds a PhD in civil engineering. He is a Professor of water resources management, hydraulic engineering and spatial planning at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz / Germany.