Muhammad Zia ur Rahman Hashmi currently works as a Research Associate at the Environmental Science Center of the Qatar University in Doha. He is a water and climate change research engineer with expertise in local scale climate projections, hydrologic impact assessment, analysis of hydro-climate extremes and water availability/security. Previously, he has been leading the Water Resources and Glaciology Section of the Global Climate Change Impact Studies Centre, Government of Pakistan, where he was running a program on implications of High Mountain climate change on national future water security. He has been a focal person for various regional/international forums such as the UIB (Upper Indus Basin) Network, Indus Forum and MRI’s Group on Elevation Dependent Warming. He has been providing inputs to the policy makers on issues related to climate change, mountain hydrology and glaciology, water security and adaptation. He has been part of a number of projects at national and international level and high-quality research publications.