Speakers and biographies

Rein Nieland

Head of Section for Governance, Social Development and Civil Society, Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon

Dr. Tarek Mitri

Director, Issam Fares Institute on Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut 

Sally AbiKhalil

Country Director, Oxfam in Lebanon

Olivier Ray

Regional director for the Middle-East, French Development Agency (AFD)

Dr. Nadim Farajalla

Director of Climate Change and Environment Program, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut

Dr. Ralf Klingbeil

Senior Expert - Water, Environment, Sustainable Development, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany

Sami Atallah

Executive Director, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS)

Suzy Hoayek

Lebanon Crisis Response Plan Coordinator, Ministry of Energy and Water

Jean Gebran

Director, Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment

Rizk Rizk

Director, Bekaa Water Establishment

Khaled Obeid

Director, North Lebanon Water Establishment

Wassim Daher

Director, South Lebanon Water Establishment

Michele Pierpaoli

Attaché – Water & Wastewater Affairs - Economy and Local Development Section, Delegation of the European Union – Lebanon

Ziad Khayat

Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA)

Ramy Saliba

Project Officer - Infrastructure, Agence Française de Développement – AFD

Dr. Amal Talbi

Lead Water Resource Management - Water Global Practice, World Bank

Rami Wehbeh

Lebanon Water Project (LWP) Program Manager, USAID/Lebanon

Dr. Hanan Fawaz

Senior Advisor Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste, KfW Development Bank

Dr. Wafa Charafeddine

Head of Funding Division,  Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR)