Up to 2022, Tawatchai Tingsanchali is an Emeritus Professor at the School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, and a Special Advisor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at Sriracha, Kasetsart University, Sriracha Campus, Thailand. Degrees obtained: B.Eng. from Chulalongkorn University in 1968, M.Eng. in Hydraulics Engineering in 1970, and D.Eng. in Water Resources Engineering in 1975 from AIT. He has 46 years’ experience in post-graduate teaching, research, and consulting in flood hydrology, hydraulics, and water resources engineering and management. He has published 78 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 202 conference papers, 42 research reports; he was editor, co-editor, and co-author of 18 books. He is a member of ASCE; IWRA; IAHS; the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT); the Indian Association of Hydrologists, Roorkee, India; ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organization (AFEO), etc. Awards received: Thailand’s Outstanding Research Project Award in 1980, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 1983, Outstanding Hydrologist of Indian Association for Hydrologists in 1995, Thailand’s Outstanding Researcher Award in 2001, ASEAN-AFEO Distinguished Honorary Engineer -ing Award in 2004, among others.