Professor Tony Wong
Chief Executive, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
Professor Tony Wong is Chief Executive of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, an Australian Government $120million inter-disciplinary research centre with research hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Singapore.
He was formerly the Chief Executive and director of Monash University's Centre for Water Sensitive Cities and, before that, its Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration.
A Civil Engineer, with a PhD in Water Resources Engineering, Tony is internationally recognised for his research and practice in sustainable urban water management, particularly in Water Sensitive Urban Design. His expertise has been gained through national and international consulting, research, and academia. He has led a large number of award-winning urban design projects in Australia and overseas and has been commended for having defined "a new paradigm for design of urban environments that blends creativity with technical and scientific rigour”.