Ronny
Berndtsson is a professor in water resources engineering at Lund University,
Sweden. He currently works as deputy director for the Centre for Advanced
Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, and co-coordinator of the
Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World. Presently he is
coordinating two major European Union projects: the Horizon 2023 FarmWise
project (Future Agricultural Resource Management and Water Innovations for a
Sustainable Europe) and the SmartWater4Future (Coupled Urban-Rural Water
Infrastructure Management under Hydroclimatic Extremes with Decision Support
System). He has published extensively on water resources and sustainable
development including climate change and safe access to water (Google scholar
H-index 64). He has acted as an expert on water resources development,
planning, and management in various countries for the World Bank, United
Nations Development Program, and United Nations Habitat. He is a member of the
Swedish Royal Academies.