Prof. Ts. Dato’ Dr. Mohd Ekhwan, is a Professor on Environmental Hydrology and the 12th Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) (National University of Malaysia). He joined the UKM in 1994, after graduating from the same university – making him the first alumni to become its VC.

He holds a MSc from Manchester University, UK and PhD from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. To date, he has published more than 272 journal papers including 168 indexed by ISI and SCOPUS, 78 books and book chapters, as well as 135 proceedings in national and international conferences. His publications are centred on river modelling and data integration, flooding and floodplain analyses and water quality modelling.

In 2012, he was appointed as a Visiting Scientist and Visiting Professor to Kyoto University, Japan. He was also a task force member of the Academic of Sciences Malaysia (Research & Development on Water) and served as Secretary, Natural Resources and Environmental Research Cluster of the Majlis Profesor Malaysia (Malaysia Professors Council). Since 2010, he has been involved as a principal researcher in more than 53 research grants and 71 consultation works in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Australia and Indonesia, including major projects by PETRONAS, ECER, TNB, LLM, ISKANDAR Malaysia, Drainage & Irrigation Department and Government agencies.

Prof Dato Mohd Ekhwan has taught courses related to hydrology, geomorphology, environmental modelling and water resources at National University of Malaysia. To date, he has supervised and examined more than 37 PhD theses, 42 MS theses and more than 127 Bachelor degree.