CWEA Wastewater Professional :: April 2014 March 2014 Volume 2 | Page 7

News Briefs

Water Environment Federation
announces new executive director

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he Water Environment Federation (WEF) formally announced that Dr. Eileen O’Neill has been
named the new Executive Director. O’Neill replaces
former executive director Jeff Eger who resigned in
July 2013. Dr. O’Neill has been serving WEF as the
Interim Executive Director since Mr. Eger’s departure
and prior to that, she was Deputy Executive Director.
“Dr. O’Neill is an experienced association executive with strong water sector knowledge based on
diverse domestic and international experience”,
said WEF President
Sandra Ralston. “She
has a proven track
record during her
20-plus years with
WEF delivering
highly successful
technical programming, increasing revenues and building
partnerships.”
Before becoming
Deputy Executive
Director in 2011, Dr.
Dr. Eileen O’Neill, WEF’s
O’Neill served as the
new Executive Director
organization’s chief
technical officer
with responsibility for oversight of WEF’s technical,
international, and communications programs. In the
past several years, she has been instrumental in creating national and international thought-leadership
programming at WEF’s annual conference—WEFTEC—the largest annual water quality conference and
exhibition in the world.
“Dr. O’Neill has consistently led WEF operations
to be more strategic and data-driven, which aligns
WEF with industry trends and the changing needs
of utilities and global professionals. She has worked
for an enhanced and more forward-looking volunteer experience,” said President Ralston. “Her sincere
appreciation of and partnership with the volunteer
leaders is inspiring.”

“I am honored by this appointment to a leadership
role in such a great organization,” said O’Neill. “It is
especially exciting to serve the water profession and
sector in such a time of change and opportunity. The
vital role that water services play in communities is
becoming increasingly clear and the need for innovative thinking and practices more widely recognized.
I have no doubt that the collective talents of our
members and volunteer leaders working with WEF’s
dedicated staff will allow WEF to play a key role in
ensuring that the promise of these new approaches
is realized.”

SBSA’s new name:
Silicon Valley Clean Water

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