Dr. (Mrs.) Irena G. Bondarik

Born 1960, Dr Bondarik obtained her Doctorate in Geology-mineralogy in the year 1988. With more than 35 years of professional experience, she has been participating in various ICID events since 1997. Dr. Bondarik was the force behind the organisation of the 55th IEC meeting in Moscow in 2004; 12th International Drainage Workshop in St Petersburg, Russia in 2014. Dr. Bondarik was instrumental in bringing out the ICID Multilingual Technical Dictionary on Irrigation and Drainage in Russian language, which was released during the 55th IEC meeting at Moscow, 2004. She has immensely contributed in various capacities to ICID Working Groups, such as Working Group on Technology and Research Uptake; Work Team on Drainage; European Regional Working Group; WG on Sustainable Drainage and Permanent Finance Committee.

Dr. Bondarik has contributed more than 150 scientific papers, articles and technical reports on land reclamation; reclaimed agro landscapes etc. in Russian language with more than 15 in English. She has been conferred with Honorary Employee of the Agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation and Commemorative Medal for 50 years on The Large-Scale Programme for Land Reclamation in Russia in 2016.

Currently Dr. Bondarik is a Leading Researcher of the Department on Ecosystem Water Management and Economy of the All-Russian Scientific Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation and Secretary General of the National Committee of the Russian Federation on Irrigation and Drainage (RUCID) (since 1998).