· Dr.
Mahmoud Abu-Zeid has been chairing the Egyptian-Dutch Advisory Panel
Program (APP) on Water Management for more than 20 years. The APP
mission is to study the problems related to water and offer advisory
and consultation services to both the Governments of Egypt and the
Netherlands. He is member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory
Board (UNSGAB) on Water and Sanitation established in March 2004.
The Board is composed of a wide range of dignitaries and elite water
specialists and is chaired by His Royal Highness the Prince of the
Netherlands. Within the UNSGAB activities, a strategy for improving
water and wastewater management has been developed, the so-called
Hashimoto strategy named after the first Chairman of the Board.
Worth-mentioning is that the UN agencies have adopted this strategy
and have placed it on top of the agenda of the African country
summit in its meeting held in Egypt in July 2008.
· Dr.
M. Abu-Zeid has contributed greatly to the establishment of the
World Water Council (WWC) and has chaired the Council for nine
successive years, well-deserving the post of Honorary President of
the World Water Council for life. During his mandate as WWC
President, he launched a number of international programs of highest
priority in the field of water. One of those programs involved the
quest for financial resources for implementing water projects in
developing countries that was presented at the World Water Forum in
the Netherlands in the year 2000.
· Dr.
M. Abu-Zeid is a Visiting Professor and tutor in several
universities worldwide, including Bari University (Italy), Colorado
and California Universities (USA). He also participated as member
of a UN team in the consultative studies on water for investigating
the possibility of linking south to north China via a new canal, in
addition to a study conducted for the Government of Yemen concerning
the development of Wadi Abeen and several other studies related to
on-farm drainage in Iraq and Syria.
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