Yusup Kamalov

Function/Title:

Chair

Country:

Uzbekistan

Affiliation:

Global Water Partnership: Central Asia and Caucassus & Union for Defence of the Aral Sea and Amudarya

Telephone:

+998612228756

E-mail:

udasa@rol.uz

Thematic field:

Cбалансированное использование воды

Изменение климата

Инновации в сельском хозяйстве

Развитие потенциала

Thematic expertise:

Integrated Water Resources Management

Irrigation agriculture

press and capacity building

Water

Energy and Food Nexus

Geographical expertise:

Central Asia

Tajikistan

Afghanistan

Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan

Karakalpakstan and Caucasus

Description:

Mr. Yusup Kamalov is Chair of Union for Defence of the Aral Sea and Amudarya.
Mr. Yusup Kamalov in 1989, together with associates founded the Union for the Degence of the Aral Sea and Amudarya (UDASA) and from 1994 to date serves as its chairman. UDASA - the first non-governmental organization in Uzbekistan, founded on the initiative of the "bottom to top."
Mr. Yusup Kamalov was born in 1951. He graduated from the Moscow Energy Institute in 1975 on a specialty "Industrial power." Worked 2 years as head of boiler shift in Tahiyatash District power station. Since the end of 1977 was an intern at the Computer Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow, in the laboratory of mathematical ecology. From 1979 to 1982 he was a postgraduate student of the CC in the same laboratory. Since 1982, he has been working in the Karakalpak branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan in different directions and positions, since 1987 - only in the field of renewable energy, mainly wind power.
Also Mr. Yusup Kamalov is currently working as a Chairman of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) for Central Asia and the Caucasus since 2010.