Dr. Zia Hashmi has a doctorate in Civil Engineering with research focussing on Hydrology and Climate Change. Currently, he is leading the Water Resources and Glaciology Section of GCISC, where he runs a program on implications of High Mountain climate change on Pakistan’s future water security. He has been GCISC’s focal person for various regional/international forums such as the Upper Indus Basin Network, Indus Forum and MRI’s Group on Elevation Dependent Warming. He has been providing inputs to the Ministry of Climate Change-Pakistan on various Water related issues especially in the area of mountain hydrology and glaciology. He has been part of a number of joint projects at national and international level and high quality research publications.