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Biographies of Contributors 1725in New York for updating the Technical Guidelines andProcedures for the Investigation of Alleged Use of Chemical,Biological, or Toxin (CBT) Weapons. Since January2009, she has been heading the group of Bio-safety at ERCand she is a member in the National Bio-safety Committee.Besides working at RSS, she has a teaching experience inMedical Microbiology at the University of Jordan and she isappointed as an Assistant Professor at Princess Sumaya Universityfor Technology, teaching a Master Programme inEnvironmental Technology and Management. Since 2005she published several peer-reviewed papers and books chapters.Address: Dr. Nisreen AL-Hmoud, Head of Water QualityStudies Division, Head of Bio-safety Unit, EnvironmentResearch Centre, Royal Scientific Society, P.O. Box 1438, AlJubeiha 11941, Amman, Jordan.Email: and .Website: .Francisco Alonso-Sarriá (Spain), PhD in geography, Lecturerat the University of Murcia and subdirector of its Instituteof Water and Environment (INUAMA). He obtained afirst degree on geography from the University of Murcia in1989. His thesis focused on quantitative morphometricalproperties of basin and drainage networks. In 1991 he obtainedan MSc on water science and technology and in 1995he obtained a PhD from the University of Murcia with athesis that focused on event-oriented modelling of a semiaridbasin applying the Geomorphologic Unit Hydrographby using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (Idrisi4.1) and developing new hydrologically-oriented moduleswith Basic. Between 1991 and 1997 he participated in internationalprojects (Medalus II and III) and in severalprojects funded by Spanish research programmes. In 1997he started as an assistant lecturer in the Geography Departmentof the University of Murcia. From 1999 and 2000 hewas a postdoctoral fellow at King's College in Londonworking with professor J.B. Thornes. In 2001 he obtained aposition as a permanent lecturer focusing mainly on topicsof GIS and remote sensing for degrees in geography andenvironmental sciences. Besides his teaching activities conductedresearch and technical activities at INUAMA of theUniversity of Murcia. His primary research interest is GISand remote sensing applied to hydrology and hydrogeomorphology.He is responsible for a number of projects on theuse of GIS and remote sensing data to improve hydrologicalmodelling efforts.Address: Dr. Francisco Alonso-Sarriá, Instituto Universitariodel Agua y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Murcia,Campus de espinardo, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain.Email: .Kwesi Aning (Ghana), Head, Conflict Prevention Managementand Resolution Department (CPMRD) of the KofiAnnan International Peacekeeping Training Centre(KAIPTC) in Accra, Ghana since January 2007. Prior heserved as the African Union's first expert on counter-terrorism,defence and security with responsibility for implementingthe continental counter-terrorism strategy and oversightof the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism(ACSRT) in Algiers, Algeria. He holds a doctoratefrom the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His primaryresearch interests deal with African security issues broadly,comparative politics, terrorism and conflicts. He has taughtin several universities in Europe and Africa. In 2007, heserved as a senior consultant to the UN Department for PoliticalAffairs, New York and completed a UN Secretary-General’s report on the relationship between the UN andregional organizations, particularly the African Union inmaintaining peace and security. He reviews for severalscholarly journals and serves on diverse boards. His publicationsinclude: “Perspectives on President-elect BarackObama’s Africa Foreign Policy”, in: African Security, 1939-2214, 2,1 (1 January 2009): 66-67; (with Samuel Atuobi):“Responsibility to protect in Africa: an analysis of the AfricanUnion’s Peace and Security architecture”, in: Journal ofthe Global Responsibility to Protect, 1,1 (February 2009):90-113 “The UN and the African Union’s security architecture:defining an emerging relationship?”, in: Critical Currents,No. 5 (October): 9-25; (with Thomas Jaye; Samuel Atuobi):“The Role of Private Military Companies in US-Africa Policy”, in: Review of African Political Economy,35,118 (2008):613 – 628.Address: Dr. Kwesi Aning, Kofi Annan International PeacekeepingTraining Centre, CMT 210, Cantonments, Accra,Ghana.E-mail: and: .Website: .Mamdouh Ahmed Antar (Egypt), Manager of the NileForecast Centre, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation,Planning Sector, Cairo. His Ph.D. focused on water resourcesmanagement using hydrological modelling with emphasison the utilization of newly developed modellingtechniques such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) incombination with Satellite images. The Nile forecastingcentre deals with flood management policies and the assessmentof climate impacts on the High Aswan dam(HAD). He managed the project titled ‘Lake Nasser Floodand Drought Control – Integration of Climate Change UncertaintyLNFDCP/ICC’ that focused on assessing the foreseenimpacts of climate changes and potential developmentprojects on Nile Basin countries. As national coordinator ofthe climate change risk management (CCRM) he promotedthe adoption of a Regional Circulation Model (RCM)as a way of identifying the possible range of climate changeimpacts on precipitation in the Nile Basin, and to adapt theexisting hydrological models to forecast climate change impactson Nile river flows. He coordinated the ‘nationalflood preparedness and early warning (FPEW) project’, oneof the Fast Track projects under the Nile Bain Initiative(NBI). Among his major publications is: (with Elassiouti, I.;Allam, M. N., 2006): “Rainfall-runoff modelling using artificialneural networks technique: a Blue Nile catchment casestudy”, in: Hydrological Process., 20, 1201–1216.