Water: Conflict & Cooperation

Eric Jankel has over 40 years of experience in the water sector with 25 years of experience

in projects and policies related to water management in the Middle East Peace Process.

Specifically:

• Founding Center Director of the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC)

based in Muscat Oman. The Center was the only organization created from the

formal Multilateral Middle East Peace Process initiated by President George HW

Bush in 1990. The governments of the United States, Oman, Israel, Japan, South

Korea and European Union created MEDRC to bring Arabs and Israeli scientists and

engineers to work together in R&D around the common problem of reducing costs

for seawater desalination.

• Deputy Director of the $18 Billion Iraq Reconstruction Program under the umbrella

AECOM contract for the Project Management O`ice (PMO) which included water

management issues for the Tigris and Euphrates River Basins, the Mosul Dam and

Basra Marshes.

• Middle East Manager for the CH2M Hill (now Jacobs) responsible for the USAID

funded West Bank Bethlehem/Hebron regional water supply projects.

• Chief of Party for the USAID funded feasibility study for the Gaza desalination plant.

• Institutional Program Manager for the Alexandria, Egypt Wastewater Project funded

under the USAID implementation of the 1978 Egypt/Israel Peace Treaty.

In addition to his international water project experience, Mr. Jankel served as Chief of Sta`

to the Secretary of the US Department of the Interior with jurisdiction over Western US

water resource programs and projects and as CEO of a regional, metropolitan water utility

company.

Mr. Jankel is currently CEO of Bayshore Water Partners, a consulting and advisory firm

serving clients in the water sector and is an active member in the Tampa Bay Chapter of the

Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Jankel holds a BA in Economics and City Planning from Rutgers College in New

Brunswick NJ and a MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,

Cambridge MA.

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