Speaker

"Dr. Rifaat is one of the leading environmental & water experts in Egypt, with more than 25 years' experience combining both academic and practice applications. He has managed and intensively involved in many of donors funded projects (National and International) in water technology, desalination, and sanitation, reuse, and sludge & industry wastewater. He has chaired international conferences on Water Supply & Sanitation; desalination and managed & delivered many capacity development training workshops/seminars. Dr. Rifaat has received the BSc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Assiut, Egypt in 1980, MSc degree in ""Environmental Sciences"" 1987; and PhD. degree in ""Hazardous Wastewater Management"" 1991 from the University of Wales, UK. Prof. Dr. Rifaat ABDEL WAHAAB is currently the consultant of Research & Development (R & D) & Director of Community Participation Program for rural Sanitation at the Holding Co. for Water and Wastewater."