ICSDWE 2025 invites experts in the field of sustainable development of water and environment attend conference and deliver speech. If you are interested in attending us, please send your CV with your speech title and abstract to us [email protected].

Keynote Speaker in ICSDWE 2025

Prof. Abdul Latif Ahmad
University of Science Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof. Ir. Dr. Abdul Latif has served as the Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering (2005-2010), Research Dean (2010-2012), Director of Nexus Engineering (2017-2019) and Board of Governance (2022-2023) at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Virtually, he is the Head for Membrane Science and Technology Cluster at USM. He obtained his BEng, MSc and PhD from the University of Wale, Swansea, UK. Being a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow to The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) UK, he is frequently being appointed by IChemE to accredit Chemical Engineering Program in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. He also has served as an evaluator for numerous national and international research grants. He is an internationally renowned and acclaimed award-winning researcher in membrane science and technology. His enthusiasm and dedication towards his research works have been reflected in his achievements in winning numerous scientific invention awards, including Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2006), 20th Khwarizmi International Award by the Iranian Ministry of Science and Technology (2007), Novel Engineering Solution (NES) Award by the IChemE UK (2008), TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, Italy (2012), Rotary Research Gold Medal Award by the Rotary Club Kuala Lumpur (2012) and Merdeka Award by the Government of Malaysia (2014). To-date, a total of 60 personal achievement awards and 69 research product awards have been won. His active participation in scientific research has also been exhibited by being the recipient of multiple research grants in various disciplines sponsored by government and nongovernment bodies, with a cumulative value of more than RM 35 million. His capability in carrying out quality research work of international standard has been further supported by publication of almost 553 articles in indexed refereed journals. With current cumulative citation number of 25,995 and H-index of 75, he is one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind and Highly Cited Researcher in 6 years in a row (2017-2022), a recognition given by Clarivate Analytics. As tenacious educator, he has successfully graduated 58 PhD and 84 MSc students and currently on-going 13 PhD and 1 MSc.

Prof. Irene Man Chi Lo
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China
Fellow of EASA and HKAES

Irene Lo is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is an Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Elected Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. She is also a Fellow of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She was appointed by HKSAR Government as Justices of the Peace (JP) in 2017. She was Adjunct Professor of Tongji University, Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. She was also Visiting Professor of Technical University of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Prof. Lo is an internationally renowned scholar and is among the first to invent iron-based nanomaterials and photocatalytic materials for the removal of heavy metals, organics, and emerging pollutants such as antibiotics from water and subsurface environment as well as to investigate the fundamental understanding of the pollutant removal mechanisms. Her research is ground-breaking and innovative, sustainable, and the outcome application is economical. She was the recipient of numerous prestigious international research awards, such as 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, 2009 ASCE Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented Paper Award. In addition, she received the 2019 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards in the Natural Science / Technology Advancement by Ministry of Education, China and the 2024 First Runner-up from the International contest of Net-zero Technology. She has been invited to give over 100 plenary / keynote / invited speeches at many international and regional conferences in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America.
Her research interests include advanced oxidation processes and nanoparticles / nanotechnology for environmental applications. Her citation is ~21700 with H-index 80, as reported by Google Scholar. She was recognized as "Top 2% Scientists in the World” by Stanford university every year since 2019.