Fayez Abdulla

Fayez Abdulla

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Mr. Abdulla holds a Ph.D. in Water resources and environmental engineering. He has more than 25 years of national, regional and international experience in water resources, climate change and drought assessment and environmental engineering.

He joined the Civil Engineering Department at Jordan University of Science & Technology in year 1995. During the period 2000-2004, he was the Director Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Center for Environmental Sciences and Technology (QRACEST) at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST).

In the last 18 years, Dr. Abdulla was involved in many Hydorological dam studies (Wheda, Wala, Tunner, Mujib, Kufranja, and Wala Raising, and other small earth dams), Drought Assessment, Hydrological modelling (surface and groundwater) climate change and hydrological studies for Dams and Watersheds. He is recognized by many countries in the region as a regional expert on climate change and hydrology and drought Assessment. He is also well known in surface and groundwater modeling.  He has more about 25 years experience in both academic and professional streams. He conducted many hydrological studies related to water resources, drought management. Water demand management and climate change. Also, he has the ability to construct a rainfall-runoff model for any watershed located in the semi-arid and arid regions and developing software such as Palmer drought index software and drought assessment software. In addition, he is good experience in using GIS software and other related softwares to water resources management such as SWAT, WEAP, HECRAS, SMADA and HECHms etc.

He Supervised 28 graduate’ Master Thesis on Wastewater, Water quality, Water Demand, Water Harvesting, Drought management and hydrological modelling. He is experienced in working and collaborating with international funding agencies including USAID, WHO, UNESCO, EU, UNDP, IDRC, Swiss Development Corporation (SDC). He has regional and international experience in water resource, climate change and environmental management in Jordan, West Bank, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, Cyprus, Germany, and USA. From year 2006-2010, he served as an instructor for “Water Conservation” course in the IWRM master program of Cologne Applied Sciences University and University of Jordan. Also, he provided  the“Water Demand and Drought Forecasting” course in the Water Demand Management Master Program at Jordan University of Science & Technology

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Education: PhD

Seniority: Expert, Engineer, Consultant

Years of experience: 20 years or above

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