Zulkifli Yusop is a Professor of Environmental Hydrology. He was also the Dean of Water Research Alliance (Mac 2009 to Jan 2015) and Director of the Institute of Environmental and Water Resources Management (IPASA). He is one of the editors of Water Science and Technology (WST). His major involvements include roles as Chairman of Public Awareness Committee of the Malaysian International Hydrological Program (MIHP), council member of Malaysian Water Association (MWA), group leader (Hydrology and Climate Change) of Asia Core Program under the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Secretary of the IWA’s Specialist Group on Appropriate Technologies for Developing Countries. His present positions include board member of Selangor Water Management Council (LUAS), Special Topic Group Leader for Asian Network for Climate Change Science and Technology (ANCST), Chairman of the Working Group Committee on Flood and Sustainable Building for CREAM/CIDB, and panels of various research funds under the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MoHEM) and Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI). He received Eco-Frontier Fellowship Awards from the Ministry of Environment, Japan, for three consecutive years (2003, 2004, and 2005). In 2012, Zulkifli was conferred to the Fellow Academy of Science Malaysia. In 2015, he was appointed as a consultant to UNESCO to assess climate change adaptation study in the South Pacific Islands.