Prof. Mukand S. Babel is a distinguished expert in water engineering, management, and climate change, with over 40 years of experience spanning academia, practice, and consultancy. Recognized among the top 2% of influential scientists globally in Environmental Engineering (Stanford University, 2023) and listed in the Reuters Hot List of the world’s top 1000 climate scientists (2021), he has worked across 24 countries. He is also Adjunct Professor, at UNU-FLORES, Germany, Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He has co-authored more than 190 journal articles in high impact factor international journals with a current h-index of 44.