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Opening Keynote Speakers
Dr. Atef Badr (Chair)
PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE, CEng, MICE, FICT, FHEA
Head of Civil Engineering & Quantity Surveying
Military Technological College, Muscat, Oman
Sustainability of Desalination- The Need to Think Again!
Prof. Jean Venables
CBE, FREng, FICE, MCIWEM, FCGI
Past President of ICE
Director of Venables Consultancy, UK
Managing Catchments Sustainably – Isn’t one Person’s Flood another Person’s Water Resource?
Prof. Dominic Reeve
PhD, FIMA, FRMetS, FICE
Head of the Zienkiewicz Centre Swansea University, UK
Experimental Investigation of Bimodal Wave Overtopping
Dr. M. A. Tomaszkiewicz
Climate Change Regional Advisor for UN-ESCWA
Impacts of Climate Change on Wadi Diqah River Basin in Oman
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mashikhi
General Director of Water Resources, MRMWR
Management of Water Resources in Sultanate of Oman
Prof. John Williams
MCIWEM, CWEM, CEnv, FHEA
Prof. of Environmental Technology
University of Portsmouth, UK
Research Led Innovation to Deliver Sustainable Wastewater and Drainage Technologies
Dr. Said Al-Ismaily
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Engineered Soil: Innovative Techniques Towards Saving Water
Sessions’ Keynote Speakers
Dr. Atef Badr (Chair)
PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE, CEng, MICE, FICT, FHEA
Head of Civil Engineering & Quantity Surveying
Military Technological College, Muscat, Oman
Oman’s Aflaj is Everyone’s Business
Prof. Yunqing Xuan
College of Engineering
Swansea University, UK
Quantitative Modelling of Hydro-climatic Extremes for Resilient Infrastructure Design
Dr. Hazim El-Naser
Former Minister of Water and Irrigation, Jordan
Chairman of the Middle East Water Forum
Political and Economic Consequences of Groundwater Depletion in the Arab Region
Dr. Salim Ali Al Mamary
Oman Water Society Board Member, Oman
Effect of Climate Change on
Aflaj in the Sultanate of Oman
The organizing committee of the OICWE2020 welcome more
keynote speakers for sessions.
If you are interested, please submit your proposal directly to the Chair by email: chair.oicwe2020@mtc.edu.om