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Speakers | Rebekah Brown | Tony Wong | Govert Geldof | Dr Megan Farrelly | Nigel Tapper | Ana Deletic | Tony Kelly and Francis Pamminger | Andre Taylor
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Professor Tony Wong: Civil Engineer & Urban Designer
Principal, EDAW
Professor: School of Geography and Environmental Science
Monash University
Dr Tony Wong is a Principal of EDAW's studio in Melbourne and Sydney and has over 25 years of experience in the fields of water resources engineering and management, advancing Ecologically Sustainable Development, particularly in integrated urban water cycle management and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD).
His expertise has been gained through consulting, research, and academia.
Tony was formerly Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and led the Urban Stormwater Quality Research program of the former Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology at Monash University until 2003.
He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration (2005) and an Honorary Professorial Fellow (2008) at Monash University.
Tony has led many innovative designs of stormwater quality improvement and water conservation/alternative water sources measures, and their integration into the urban form underpins WSUD as we know it in Australia today.
Tony provides strategic advice to governments, and the land development industry, on sustainable urban water management and has led the development of many state and corporate policies on WSUD.
He has co-authored a number of book chapters for UNESCO and was Editor-in-Chief of Engineers Australia's Book Australian Runoff Quality: A guide to Water Sensitive Urban Design, published in 2006.
He is currently a member of the Urban Water Advisory Group to the Australian Commonwealth Government's National Water Commission and served on the Prime Minister's Science Engineering and Innovation Council's working group on Water for Cities in 2006-2007.
He also chaired the IWA/IAHR International Working Group on WSUD between 2003 and 2008.
Tony was a founding partner and director of the consulting firm Ecological Engineering before the firm join EDAW in July 2007.