Nesa Ilich, Ph.D.

	Company: Optimal Solutions Ltd Position: Principal Presentation: Conjunctive Optimization of Demand and Supply in Integrated River Basin Management Models
Dr. Nesa Ilich is a water resources engineer with over 20 years of consulting practice for various clients in the water resources sector, including Alberta Environment, TransAlta, Environment Canada and a number of international clients. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba and M.Sc. from the University of Alberta. Dr. Ilich has significantly improved Alberta Environment’s Water Resource Management Model (WRMM) through a series of contracts which started in 1988 and exported its use overseas. This model has been used in numerous multi-disciplinary basin management studies. He has also recently developed and tested a unique method for multiple-site generation of stochastic hydrologic time series that was used successfully on several projects. Dr. Ilich has published numerous papers on computer Modelling topics in river basin management and hydrology.