Walid K. Al- Zubari

GRM 2010 Workshop: Environmental Policies in the Gulf Region

Water Resource Management Vice-President, Academic Affairs - Arabian Gulf University

Dr. Waleed Khalil Al-Zubari currently holds the position of professor in the Desert and Arid Zones Sciences Program, College of Graduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University (AGU). He has published more than 45 papers in refereed journals, conferences and seminars in the fields of Groundwater resources development, management, and planning, use of numerical modeling in the assessment, development, and management of groundwater system, and geostatistical mapping methods applied to groundwater hydrology and pollution, and stochastic groundwater modeling. He has also initiated and conducted a number of training courses at AGU. Dr. Al-Zubari is the Editor-in-Chief of the regional Arabian Gulf Journal of Scientific Research (AGJSR) since September 2006, and he serves as a referee for many regional and international journals. Dr. Al-Zubari served as a member of the UNESCO’s Theme Advisory Board (TAB) for the International Hydrology Program, IHP-VI, Paris (2002-2007), and is serving now as a member of the Global Working Group for UNESCO’s Water Education. Dr. Al-Zubari has been active in the Water Science and Technology Association (WSTA), a Water-related NGO organization in the GCC countries, and has made contributions to the water scientific committee, as he served as the Chairman of the Scientific Committees of the WSTA Third (Oman, 1997), Fourth (Bahrain, 1999), Fifth (Qatar, 2001), and Seventh (Kuwait, 2005) Gulf Water Conferences. He was elected as the president of the WSTA (2001-2003), and he chaired the WSTA Sixth Gulf Water Conference held in Riyadh in 2003.