Dr. Saavedra has more than 18 years of professional experience as a hydrologist, both in Bolivia and overseas (Japan, Egypt, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand and Cambodia) with an emphasis on hydrological modeling, risk analysis and urban flood control, including both structural and non-structural measures, such as dam operation, water-level monitoring and evacuation alerts. His professional expertise includes the analysis of precipitation data sets: rain gauge, ground radar and satellite-based precipitation products, along with the GCM’s climate-change scenarios, downscaling and gridded datasets in different basins of Bolivia, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Africa. He dominates the field in the use of sector software, such as open-source models in Fortran languages such as GBHM and WEB-DHM, or free-use models, such as HEC-HMS, WEAP and HydroBid. These tools convert data into useful information to support decision-making. He has delivered different lectures and training courses and has contributed to over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is the author of numerous practitioners' technical guidelines for flood management.