Dr. Fadi Comair
Director of Water Resources
Speaker on the Energy & Water Crisis panel

Dr. Fadi Georges Comair is the Director General of Hydraulic and Electrical Resources of Lebanon and the Director of the Water, Energy and Environment Research Center (WEERC) at Notre Dame University.

Earner of many degrees from Lamar university-Texas, Ecole Nationale des ponts et chausses -France and University of Claude Bernard -Lyon and from Harvard University - USA.

Dr. Comair is an active member of the ASCE's Environment and water Resources Institute. In May 2009 he was recognized by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE) Board of Trustee as Diplomat Water Resource Engineer (D.WRE).

His work at the Ministry of Energy and Water was marked by the ten years IWRM Vision Strategy for Lebanon destined to satisfy the water demand management of the country. He also played an active role in water conflict resolutions on several international water courses in the Middle East such as the Orontes (Assi), Nahr El Kebir and the Jordan River Basin.

He is a main water expert at the Union for the Mediterranean (UFM) and the European Mediterranean Water Information System (EMWIS), and launched the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) program in Lebanon in coordination with GWP-med. He is also honorary president of MENBO (Mediterranean network of basin organizations) and water diplomat of the American Academy of Water Resource Engineers.