Durga Prasad Panday is a faculty at Sustainability Cluster, UPES. He is a post-graduate in Water Resources Engineering from IIT Delhi. He has twice qualified the GATE exam with 99 percentiles. He has published several research articles including journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings. His area of interest is Water resources modelling, Hydroclimatic extremes, Game-theoretic conflict resolution techniques, watershed management, water quality modelling and GIS. He has a teaching experience of 7 years. He is actively engaged in consultancy works in water resources and quality modelling.