Ali Chavoshian- P.hD. in Civil and Environment Engineering (25 years of experience)
Ali Chavoshian is Director of RCUWM. He has served in various capacities in several national and international water-related projects for more than 25 years. He joined the Ministry of Energy of Iran in 1995 after receiving his master’s degree in water engineering. He received his Ph.D. in 2007 and served at the Public Works Research Institute of Japan as a researcher and lecturer from 2007 to 2014. He is appointed by the Minister of Energy of Iran as the director of the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) under the auspices of UNESCO in 2014. In the capacity of RCUWM Director, his main duties are capacity building, research, and development and also water-related networking in West and Central Asia. He is also a visiting professor at Tokyo City University and a senior advisor to a few ODA projects in the field of sustainable development, community empowerment, and water-related TAs in Asia and the Pacific
