Tamara Tokarczyk is a professor at the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management National Research Institute (IMWM NRI) in Poland. She is a member of the Water Management Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Global Water Partnership, the Expert Group of LOW FLOW & DROUGHT in the framework of IHP, the UNESCO Programme, the Polish Association of Hydrologists, and the Expert Group in the framework of the International Commission for the Protection of the Odra River against Pollution. Recently, she was representative of Poland in the WMO as a Hydrological Adviser. Her research activities concentrates around hydrology and hydrometeorology with the special emphasis on developing flood and drought monitoring and prediction tools; extreme hydrometeorological events risk assessment; and multidisciplinary approaches combining meteorology, climatology, hydrology and mathematical modelling. She is the author and co-author of more than 100 scientific publications.