Dr. Hubert Savenije

Biography

Since 1999, Hubert Savenije is Professor of Hydrology at the Delft University of Technology, where he is the head of the Water Resources Section. Prof. Savenije studied at the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, where he obtained his MSc in 1977 in Hydrology. As a young graduate hydrologist he worked for six years in Mozambique where he developed a theory on salt water intrusion in estuaries and studied the hydrology of international rivers. From 1985-1990 he worked as an international consultant mostly in Asia and Africa. He joined academia in 1990 to complete his PhD in 1992. In 1994 he was appointed Professor of Water Resources Management at the IHE (now UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education) in Delft, the Netherlands.

Research Interest

Hydrology