Dr. Hussein Al-Atfy
Secretary General
Arab Water Council
bio
- Former Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt.
- Honorary Vice-President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).
- Honorary President of the Egyptian National Committee for Irrigation and Drainage (ENCID).
- Former Secretary-General of the National Water Research Center (NWRC).
- Throughout his 40-year professional experience in the field of water resources management, he progressed in the high-caliber posts of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Egypt till appointed Senior Undersecretary, where he contributed effectively to the development of short- and long-term strategies, policies and national plans for water resources management till year 2050, besides the planning and implementation of national mega projects (improvement of irrigation and drainage, integrated water resources management, institutional reform, updating of laws and legislations, …) towards improvement of water resources management in Egypt.
- Presently he is Secretary-General of the Arab Water Council, an Arab regional organization working on the international scale, and has numerous contributions in the water sector on the national, regional and international domains. He also has distinguished relations with numerous development partners, including Arab, regional and international organizations and institutions, with the aim of promoting cooperation towards water security and achieving the sustainable development goals. In collaboration with the League of Arab States (LAS), he assisted in formulating the Implementation Plan of the 2010-2030 Strategy for Arab Water Security.
- El-Atfy is member of the Water Committee affiliated to the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate and the Arab Union of Engineers, lecturer at different national, regional and international research Institutes and universities, and supervisor and reviewer of numerous research papers and dissertations.
- Throughout his professional career, Dr. El-Atfy participated in a series of regional and international Conferences and Fora and is author of several papers and books, and also scientific editor of many local and international journals on water, including the Arab Water Council Journal “Al-Maa.”
- El-Atfy was awarded a number of Recognition Awards and prizes from national and international organizations for his distinguished contributions in the water sector. He is Winner of the ICID Watsave Award on “Innovative Water Management” in 1999 for outstanding contribution to water conservation and water saving in agriculture.