Water and Environmental Consultant

Senior Advisor

Manfred A. Lange

Senior Research Advisor

Jan Janssens

Senior Water Sector Institutional and PPP Expert

Aristides has over 34 years of wide experience in the design and supervision of construction of civil engineering projects in the fields of water supply. He has considerable experience in urban water distribution network management, including Non-Revenue Water (NRW) and Water Loss Management with particular application to water audits, metering, leakage assessment and control, pressure management and network rehabilitation and improvement.

Aristides has extensive involvement in the operation and maintenance of water reticulation systems having spent over 30 years at the Water Board of Larnaka, Cyprus, heading the Technical Services. He was  actively engaged in the daily operations as well as the numerous improvement projects over the years, such as the construction of storage reservoirs and pipelines, the application of water loss reduction strategies including pressure reduction and control, leakage detection, metering replacement program.

Aristides holds a Higher Diploma in Civil Engineering as well as a Bachelor degree in Business Administration. He is an active member of the Water Loss Specialist Group of the International water Association.

Manfred A. Lange received a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Kiel, Germany in 1980. After a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Californian Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, USA, he held a position as staff scientist/glaciologist at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. He was the Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland (1992-1995) and a Professor in Geophysics at the Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (1995-2007). He also held the position of Director of the University of Münster’s Center for Environmental Research (1998-2007).

Manfred is and has been a coordinator of numerous projects of the European Union, the European Science Foundation and of nationally funded research projects in Germany, Finland and Cyprus. From September 2007 until September 2015 he served as (the founding) Director of the Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC) of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) in Nicosia, Cyprus. He also served as the acting Vice President for Research (April 2013 to October 2015) and as Acting Director of the Science and Technology in Archaeology Research Center (May 2015 to September 2017) at CyI. He continues to serve as full Professor at EEWRC.

He is currently the Director of the Future Earth MENA Regional Center, as well as the Director of the MENA Regional Nodal Offices for the Global Land Programme. His main research interests include the assessment of climate change impacts with a focus on water- and energy security, renewable energy sources and energy- and water use efficiency in the built environment.

Jan has over 35 years of professional experience in the water and sanitation sector, and in projects carried out for many international finance institutions, including the World Bank (WBG), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and local entities (governments, public or private operators). Jan retired in 2008 from the World Bank, with over 15 years of project experience, as Team Leader and Lead Specialist, and Water Program Management at the World Bank Institute.

His main areas of expertise are strategic advice and capacity building on water sector institutional reform, water utility development, change management and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in water infrastructure including PPP options analyses and performance-based contract (PBC) design.  He has worked in Sub-Sahara Africa, Northern Africa & Middle East, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and Asia Regions. He has lectured and presented papers at nearly 135 international events worldwide.

Jan is a Fellow of the International Water Association (IWA) and Honorary Member of the African Water Association (AfWA).  He holds a Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering (Ghent University), and in Environmental Water Resources Management (Brussels University). He also holds an MBA of the Vlerick Gent-Leuven Business School and is an Alumnus of IMD Lausanne.