Zorba López Rivera is Agricultural Engineer by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Agricultural Engineers (CEng MIAgrE), Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE), and EUR ENG accredited by FEANI. He worked in Engineering Services for 25 years in Europe, America, Asia and recently the Middle East. His broad expertise spans agronomy, irrigation, water, wastewater, storm water, as well as renewable energies and energy efficiency, within consultancy, manufacturing and utilities management environments. He has specialist knowledge of design, master planning, operation and maintenance of water systems, PPP contracts and project management. He designed and managed EPC projects in many countries around the world, including long-term, high value systems for governments.

Antonio D. del Campo (1971) is a Forestry Engineer (1997) and Doctor (2002) from the University of Córdoba. He is a tenured professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he joined as associate professor (2001), making it compatible with forestry projects at EGMASA. His teaching is related to forest science and engineering; and his research, with the eco-hydrology of forest systems and with forest restoration. His merits have been recognized with four six-year terms by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity and he has more than 100 publications with peer review. He has participated in 30 national and international R + D + i projects, and in contracts with companies and Administrations, being the principal investigator in 25 of them. He has done stays at the universities of Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. He is part of the FAO expert committee on forests and water as well as of the TF-IUFRO: Forests, Soil and Water Interactions.