{"id":128,"date":"2025-10-02T03:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/adeel-zafar\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:36:31","slug":"adeel-zafar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/adeel-zafar\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeel Zafar"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZafar Adeel<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Adeel Zafar\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/adeel-zafar\/317191-2-eng-gb\/adeel-zafar_author.jpg\" alt=\"Adeel Zafar\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnited Nations University, International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWebsite:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPersonal profile at the United Nations University<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Dr. Zafar Adeel is the Director of United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the McMaster University. Previously, he served as the Chair of UN-Water from January 2010 to February 2012. He has been part of the UNU since 1998 and holds a Master\u2019s Degree from Iowa State University (1992) and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (1995). Before joining the UNU, he served as a Senior Engineer at GeoTrans Inc. (USA) for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">He has experience in a range of water and environmental issues, including monitoring and control of water pollution, water management in dry areas, solutions to industrial environmental problems, modeling of environmental systems and environmental policy formulation. He has led the development of a network of scientists working in water-scarce countries, particularly those in Africa, Middle East and Asia and published several books during his editorial lead. He co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment team that produced the global desertification synthesis in 2005. Dr. Adeel was also member of the editorial boards of Sustainability Science (Springer) and Global Environmental Change (Elsevier Science).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/bridging-development-goals\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/bridging-development-goals\/317268-3-eng-gb\/bridging-development-goals_column.jpg\" alt=\"Bridging development goals\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/prioritising-water\/bridging-development-goals\/\">Bridging development goals<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/adeel-zafar\/\">Zafar Adeel<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t06 February 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tDr. Adeel warns against a fragmented approach in formulating the post-2015 development agenda. 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