- Dr. Peter Koefoed Bjørnsen, UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment, Denmark
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Janos J. Bogardi, Global Water System Project, Bonn, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Dietrich Borchardt, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany (Chair of the conference)
- Dr. Ines Dombrowsky, German Development Institute, Germany
- Héctor Garduño, International Consultant, Mexico
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Jardin, Ruhrverband, Essen, Germany (IWA Board of Directors)
- Prof. Dr. Alan Jenkins, CEH, Natural Environment Research Council, Oxfordshire, Great Britain
- Dr. Rivka Kfir, South African Government, Water Research Commission, South Africa
- Prof. Dr. Peter Krebs, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Kroiss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Prof. em. Dr. Christian Leibundgut, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Wolfram Mauser, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
- Dr. Timothy Moss, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner, Germany
- Dayanand Panse, Indian Water Works Association, India
- Prof. Dr. Peter Reichert, Eawag, Duebendorf, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Seppo Rekolainen, SYKE, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Ulrich Rudolph, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany
- Prof. David L. Rudolph, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Prof. Dr. Min Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China