Global Affiliates

Dr. Salman M. A. Salman is an Affiliate Member of the International Water Law Academy. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Brill Research Perspectives in International Water Law; a Fellow of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA); Chair of the University of Khartoum Council; and an academic researcher and consultant on water law and policy.

Dr. Salman has published extensively in the field of national and international water law and policy. For the list of his publications see his CV:

https://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/experts/Salman.pdf.

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Until December 2009 Dr. Salman M. A. Salman was Lead Counsel with the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank, and the Bank’s adviser on water law. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. Salman worked as a Legal Officer with the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD), in Rome, Italy (1981–1983). Prior to that, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Khartoum in Sudan (1978–1981). Dr. Salman obtained his LL.B. from the University of Khartoum, Sudan (1972); and holds an LL.M. (1974), and a J.S.D. (1977), both from Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Dr. Salman was the co-recipient of the IWRA Crystal Drop Award 2017, at the Cancun, Mexico, 16^th IWRA Congress (shared with Dr. Cecilia Tortajada); the highest IWRA award, presented every three years. He is also the winner of two IWRA awards for best published articles in Water International journal.

Dr. Salman started working on water law for the World Bank in 1993 and was the first lawyer to be appointed by the World Bank as the Water Law Adviser. He handled in that capacity a vast array of issues on national and international water law and policy, including giving advice on and assisting with water legislation, international water treaties and conventions, international water disputes, dam safety legislation, as well as water resources projects, particularly the interpretation and application of the World Bank Policy for Projects on International Waterways.

Dr. Salman taught as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Khartoum (1978 – 1981). He was a visiting professor with the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in Kuala Lumpur, May – June 2013, where he taught and advised graduate students. He has been an external examiner for LLM and PhD theses with a number of universities including Pacific McGeorge Law School; University of Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science; Loyola University of Chicago Law School; and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He also led the World Bank training program on water law.

Dr. Salman was selected by The Hague Academy of International Law as the Co-Director for the Centre for Research and Studies for the 2001 session on “Water Resources and International Law,” (August – September 2001). He also assisted the Permanent Court of Arbitration in organizing a global seminar on “Resolution of International Water Disputes” in 2002.