Board of Directors
MENA NWC’s Board of Directors ensures that the Network is serving the interests of its members and fulfilling its mission resolve water challenges in the Middle East and North Africa. Its current members include:
- Lee Addams, Vice-President, Corporate Strategy, Valmont Industries, Inc, United States
- Thameur Chaibi, Head of Department of Rural Engineering, National Institute for Research in Rural Engineering, Water, and Forestry (INRGREF), Tunisia
- Manar Fayyad, Vice President, German Jordanian University (GJU), Jordan
- Abdel Kawi 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 Development (USAID), United States
- Harvey Perlman, Chancellor, The 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 (AFESD), 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 in Abu Dhabi (NYU), United States
- Hanna Zaghloul, Chief Executive Officer, Kawar Energy, Jordan
- Waleed Zubari, Professor of Water Resources Management, Arabian Gulf University (AGU), Bahrain