Fall 2014
MENA NWC
Middle East and North Africa Network of Water Centers of Excellence
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Inaugural Meeting of the
Board of Directors
1
MENA NWC Welcomes
New Centers
2
Research Funding
Opportunities
2
Save the Date! MENA NWC
First Biennial Congress
3
MENA NWC Incorporated
as Non-Profit Organization
in Washington, D.C.
4
International Research
Presentations
4
Awards to Young Water
Scientists Finalized
5
MENA NWC Launches
Initial Website
5
Table of PR&D Research
Project Awards
6
MENA NWC’s Inaugural Meeting of the Board
of Directors at the IWA Congress in Portugal
MENA NWC’s permanent
Board of Directors met for
the first time at the
International Water
Association’s (IWA)
World Water Congress &
Exhibition in Lisbon,
Portugal. The Board
Members are:
• Lee Addams
Vice-President,
Corporate Strategy,
Valmont Industries,
United States
• Thameur Chaibi
Interim Deputy Rector,
Pan African University
(PAU), Ethiopia
• Manar Fayyad
Vice President,
German Jordanian
University (GJU),
Jordan
• Abdelkawi Khalifa
Professor, Ain Shams
University, and former
Minister of Water and
Wastewater Utilities,
Egypt
• Ralf Klingbeil
Regional Advisor
Environment and
Water, United Nations
Economic and Social
Commission for
Western Asia (UN
ESCWA), Lebanon
• Elisabeth Kvitashvili
Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau
for the Middle East,
U.S. Agency for
International
Ghazi Abu Rumman of ICT International demonstrates how electronic sensors can be
used to improve on-farm irrigation management to the Application of Near-Real Time
Monitoring Systems for Irrigated Agriculture research team outside of Amman,
Jordan in March 2014.
From left to right: John Wilson of USAID with Board Members Said Ouattar, Ralf Klingbeil, John Waterbury, Waleed Zubari, Abdel Kawi Khalifa,
Lee Addams, Harvey Perlman, Hanna Zaghoul, Muwaffaq Saqqar, Jill
Smail, and Manar Fayyad.
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Development
(USAID), United
States
Harvey Perlman
Chancellor,
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
(UNL), United States
Said Ouattar
Director General,
Hassan II Agronomy
and Veterinary
Institute (IAV),
Morocco
Muwaffaq Saqqar
Water and
Environment
Consultant Engineer,
Arab Fund for
Economic and Social
Development, Kuwait
Jill Smail Science
and Technology
Advisor, Bureau of
Near East Affairs,
U.S. Department of
State (DoS), United
States
• John Waterbury
Global Professor of
Political Science, New
York University (NYU)
in Abu Dhabi, United
States
• Hanna Zaghoul
Chief Executive
Officer, Kawar
Energy, Jordan
• Waleed Zubari
Professor of Water
Resources
Management, Arabian
Gulf University (AGU),
Bahrain
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