EWB-International Forum Booklet

October 31, 2014

Washington D.C. USA

Hyatt Regency Reston Hotel

Global Engineers International Forum

Table of Contents

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Conference Overview

Page 3 Programming Overview

Page 6 Speaker Biographies

Page 11 Organizing Committee

Page 13 Attendee Biographies

Page 20 Contact Us

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Conference Overview


Welcome to the Engineers Without Borders-International (EWB-I) 2014 Global Engineer International Forum. This Forum marks an important turning point in the history of the global EWB-I movement as the first time in years that over 50% of EWB-I member associations (MAs) have gathered together under in one location. This Forum features presentations about projects implemented by various MAs, opportunities to network with affiliated organizations and corporate sponsors, and a group brainstorming session. Just one day before the Forum, the EWB-I Executive Committee (EC) will meet, and they will look to your involved participation in the Forum to help them identify the pressing priorities for the organization in the coming years.

This booklet features information that will help you make the most of your Forum experience. We hope that the relationships that you craft at the Forum will last beyond the action-packed day in Washington D.C., leading ultimately for greater projects and educational opportunities for the communities that we serve worldwide. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.ewb-international.org/2014forum/

Thank you,Forum Organizing Committee

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Programming Summary

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Time Description Presenter

7:30 AM –

8:15 AM

BREAKFAST

8:15 AM –

8:30 AM

Welcome Cathy Leslie

Scott Hudson

8:30 AM –

9:00 AM

Icebreaker activity Andrew

9:00 AM – 9:25 AM EWB-Brazil presentation Micael Jardim

9:25 AM – 9:50 AM EWB-USA Presentation Taylor Polodna

9:50 AM –

10:15 AM

EWB-Canada Presentation Shayne Smith

Programming Summary



10:15 AM – 10:45 AM BREAK for snacks

/Contingency time for Q&A

10:45 AM –

11:10 AM

EWB-Norway Presentation Ole Knudsen

11:10 AM –

11:35 AM

EWB-Australia Presentation Lizzie Brown

11:35 AM –

12:00 PM

EWB-UK Presentation Doug Harper & Katie

Cresswell-Maynard

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM LUNCH

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Corporate Panel Representatives from Alcoa,

Bechtel, Boeing, and others

Programming Summary



2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Break-out Groups Small Groups

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Break-out Group Outcomes Full Room

3:15 PM –

4:00 PM

BREAK/Contingency time

4:00– 4:30 PM Group opinion polling Full Room

4:30 PM –

5:00 PM

Closing Remarks Cathy Leslie

Scott Hudson

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Co-mingling with EWB-USA

National Conference

All attendees

Speakers


Scott Hudson is a Principal Manager with Alcoa Foundation, one of the largest corporate

foundations in the United States with community investment in 24 countries. Earlier in hiscareer, Scott held HR analyst and consulting positions with Hay Management Consultants,Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Abt Associates. Prior to Alcoa Foundation, Scott heldhumanitarian assistance and international development positions with the Peace Corps;United States Agency for International Development; CARE International; and theInternational Organization for Migration in Albania, Angola, Fiji, Guatemala and Mozambique.He is a proud graduate of Rutgers University (MS – Industrial Relations & Human ResourcesManagement), and University of Southern Connecticut (MBA).

Cathy Leslie has served as the Executive Director of EWB-USA since 2004. She oversees the

operations and finances of the organization and is responsible for the consistent achievementof the organization’s mission. Cathy began her work in developing countries as a Peace CorpsVolunteer in rural Nepal. During her station, she developed and implemented solutions thataddressed drinking water and sanitation issues facing the community. In addition to her workin the international sustainable development field, Cathy has over 20 years experienceoverseeing both domestic and international corporate engineering projects. As the ExecutiveDirector of EWB-USA, Cathy bridges her skills and experience as a Professional Engineer withher commitment to the creation of sustainable and participatory solutions to rural communitydevelopment projects.

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Speakers


Katie Cresswell-Maynard has been an active member of EWB-UK since 2006.

Her current role is as the Head of Learning, Research & Innovation where she draws on her experience championing the idea of the Global Engineer in the UK, establishing the EWB Challenge in the UK academic education sector in 2011, managing EWB-UK's Research Programme and her role as a consultant engineer at the global consultancy firm Arup in the Energy, Cities and Climate Change team. She is really excited to engage with other EWBs interested in preparing today's and tomorrow's engineers for the challenges of the 21st century.

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Passionate about both youth development and socioeconomic change, Doug Harpertook over as the Chief Executive of EWB-UK in Aug 14. He started his career in the BritishArmy and has since worked for a private company that specializes in deliveringagricultural projects in emerging markets and for an educational NGO. He has beenfortunate enough to work on a number of projects internationally including South EastAsia, North America, the Middle East and West Africa. He studied Civil and StructuralEngineering for his first degree, and also has a Masters in International Relations.

Speakers


Taylor Polodna is the current president of the Engineers Without Borders - Bridges

to Prosperity chapter of the Colorado School of Mines. He was an active leader in thedesign and the project manager during implementation of the Las Trancas pedestrianfootbridge in La Conquista, Nicaragua. He is in his senior year at the Colorado School ofMines and is expected to graduate this spring with a BS in Chemical and BiochemicalEngineering. In his spare time, he enjoys rock-climbing, bicycling, and volunteering withvarious service organizations.

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Jenny Turner works with EWB-Australia as the Curriculum Coordinator in a dynamic

team passionate about embedding principles of humanitarian engineering and sustainability into university curriculum. She has a background in chemical / biomedical engineering and engineering education and taught at the University of Queensland prior to joining EWB-Australia as a staff member three years ago. In addition to engineering education Jenny also enjoys the wilderness and can often be found camping and bushwalking.

Speakers


Micael Jardim has been the CEO of Engineers Without Borders - Brazil for two years.

He led the expansion of the organization from two to seventeen cities in the country Henow focuses on the growth of the organization as a professional NGO admired in Braziland one day, across the world.

Lizzie Brown is an Environmental Engineer and CEO of Engineers Without Borders

Australia. Lizzie became a volunteer with EWB Australia in 2004, soon after theorganisation was established. She joined the staff team in 2006 as Director of Educationand has held the position of CEO since 2010. Lizzie is passionate about many things -including improving the social legacy of the Australian engineering sector. She lives inMelbourne with her husband Rick and loves great food and getting outdoors.

Speakers


Ole Kristian Hartvedt Knudsen is a 22 year old civil engineering student from

Oslo, Norway. He currently lives in Trondheim and is studying at NTNU, NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology. He works as an event associate in EWB NTNU, andwas head of their Alcoa project, the Borderless festival. In addition to working with EWB,he is the concert manager of Norway's biggest culture festival, UKA, with over 90 000tickets sold last year.

Oddvin Oestmo has been involved for about 9 months in EWB-Norway as an event

coordinator. He was responsible for the “Creation of the Global Engineer" event, and isresponsible for contacting orators and scholars for the program. He is studyingmechanical engineering at NTNU in Norway, and is active in several environmental andhumanitarian organizations, including working as an glacier instructor on the side.

Organizing Committee


Andrew Lamb was the first staff Chief Executive of Engineers Without Borders UK until

summer 2013 where he made significant progress in the organsation’s scope and effectiveness, including a much stronger focus on engineering education and developing the ‘massive small change’ philosophy. Andrew has engaged with EWB-International since 2003. Andrew is a director of the Appropedia Foundation which runs the Appropediawebsite – a sustainability wiki. He is a trustee of disaster relief organisation RedR UK and of the Humanitarian Centre in Cambridge. He was the technical editor of the world’s first global report on engineering, the UNESCO Engineering Report, and was a Visiting Lecturer for EngineeringUK. Andrew is now working for: the global engineering body the World Federation of Engineering Organisations on projects such as engineering capacity building in Africa; for World Bank on open data in Tanzania; the global civil society body CIVICUS on their ‘Big Development Datashift’, and; for the ‘Global Dimension in Engineering Education’ project in Europe. He is an active advisor to Field Ready (using disruptive technologies to transform relief supply chains), to the UNESCO Engineering Initiative and to the UK Institution of Civil Engineers development policy panel

Vivas Kumar is the Special Assistant to the Executive Director and a Board member at

the Engineers Without Borders-USA. He graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering specializing in Photonics in May 2014 from Rice University. He co-founded with a multi-disciplinary team of students the OwlSpark Accelerator, Rice University's Entrepreneurship Accelerator program. He will be starting as a Business Analyst with McKinsey & Company in the Houston Office in January 2015.

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Organizing Committee


An experienced community relations and communications professional, Patty Keck provides

senior-level consulting services to academic, corporate and non-profit clients. She is a leader in thefield of corporate social responsibility and helps clients forge mutually beneficial corporate/non-profit partnerships. Prior to becoming a consultant in 2013, Patty served as the Director ofCommunity Investment for global engineering and construction company CH2M HILL, where shedirected the firm’s global philanthropy and community engagement programs as well as the CH2MHILL Foundation. A seasoned writer and editor, Patty has written guest columns for publications suchas ICOSA Magazine, Denver Business Journal and Las Vegas Sun, among others. Throughout hercareer, Patty has been recognized by organizations such as the International Association of BusinessCommunicators (IABC), the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and the American MarketingAssociation for excellence in communications and CSR leadership.

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Amer Rabayah is the Co-Founding President of EWB – Palestine and the current Executive

Director. He is a member of EWB-International Board of directors, and the head of EWB-International membership Committee. He is a civil engineer and received his BSc degree in Civilengineering in 2000 and a masters degree in Urban Planning in 2006 from Birzeit University-Palestine. He is a projects manager with Rabayah Construction Company and the Owner ofRabayah Consulting Engineers. Amer has expanded his family business from constructions toinclude Engineering consultancies and software development (www.rabayah-group.com); he iscurrently starting a new business within the Rabayah-Group that deals with the Bio-Gas. Amer alsois the head of the structural engineering department in Ziadah Engineering Office (www.ziadah.ps)who are designing Rawabi city (www.rawabi.ps).

Participants


Dr. Ashok Agarwal (EWB-India) completed his B. Tech (Mechanical), M.S. and Ph.D.

from the University of Minnesota. USA. He was a professor at IIM Calcutta for 18 years andNortheastern University. He was a Ford Fellow at MIT and University of Minnesota. Hefounded Engineers Without Borders India as it’s Chairman, and is now associated there as aDirector. He is now trying to address social issues through participation of young engineersfrom various colleges across India with a focus on water, energy, sanitation and education.

Oliver Nachevski (EWB-Macedonia) is a MSc in Civil Engineering with more than 28

years of extensive professional experience in project implementation and cooperation withnational and local governmental officials. He has engaged on numerous infrastructure projectsfounded by various international donor agencies as well as international companies. SinceMay 2011 he is the Vice President of EWB-International (Public Relation, Fundraising,Finances) and in charge of the preparation of the Quarterly Newsletter of EWB International.Previously he was a member of the EWB-International Fundraising Standing Committee andMarketing/Publicity Standing Committee. He is the Founding President of the EngineersWithout Borders Macedonia since 2006

Maria Paula Florez Jimenez (EWB-Colombia) was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She

is an Industrial Engineer and Environmental Engineer from the Universidad de los Andes, andis currently pursuing her masters degree. She has experience in work with vulnerablecommunities.

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Participants


Denis Mahonghol (EWB-Cameroon) is from Cameroon in Central Africa, 40

years old, member of Engineers Without Borders – Cameroon (EWB C) since its creationin 2003. Formerly the National Coordinator in 2005, he is the current Natural ResourcesProgram Manager. He holds an engineering degree of Waters, Forests and Wildlife fromthe University of Dschang (Cameroon), and a Master degree in Planning andParticipatory Management of Forest Resources of the Regional Centre for SpecialEducation in Agriculture and Forestry-Wood (CRESA FORET-BOIS French acronym) fromthe University of Dschang. He hasbeen working for 14 years as a Forestry CommunityDevelopment Expert at international level. His interests span diverse areas of expertisesuch as rural development, multi-stakeholder approaches, natural resourcesmanagement, forest legality, certification and governance, climate mitigation, REDD+process, monitoring and evaluation of development projects, capacity building of stateinstitutions in decision-making, communication and advocacy.

Jean – Claude Sabushimike (EWB-Burundi) has a University degree (Bac + 5)

obtained at the University of Burundi, and a masters degree in territory analysis, Identity and development from the University of Catania in Italy. Between 2009 – 2013, he was the Permanent Secretary of the chamber of the Professionals of Buildings and Public Works of Burundi, and was the Secretary General of the National Coordination of Burundi Farmers Organization. From 2009 onwards, he has been the Founding President of EWB-Burundi. In September 2011, he was chosen as an African Young Leader, and has participated in conferences across Africa and Europe.

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Participants


Latifah Hamzah (EWB-Malaysia) is the Founding President and current

Treasurer of Engineers Without Borders - Malaysia. Having returned home aftergraduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology in June 2012, she wanted to be able to engage in projects thathelped the community as well as get people excited about real world engineering. SinceEWB did not yet exist in Malaysia, starting it up seemed like the logical next step. Apartfrom working on EWB-M by night, by day she is a Flow Assurance Engineer at Shell. Herother interests include badminton, football (soccer), reading and classical music (pianoand violin).

Lanciné Bamba (EWB-Ivory Coast) is a computer engineer and secretary

general of EWB-Ivory Coast. He currently leads two projects: a school infrastructureconstruction project in Western Ivory Coast, and a rural electrification project inNorthern Ivory Coast.

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Roger Fernandez (EWB-Bolivia) is a Petroleum Engineer working for one of

Bolivia´s National Gas and Oil subsidiaries. He is a member of EWB-Bolivia director´sboard and a professor for Technology of Natural Gas in the Engineering Military School (Escuela Militar de Ingenieria - Bolivia)

Participants


Nader Hajj Shehadeh (EWB-Lebanon) is the founder of Engineers Without

Borders Lebanon. He describes himself as "Engineer by education, Manager by profession, Traveler by nature, Social Worker at heart, and Entrepreneur by passion.” Nader is a sustainable development passionate, with long-term professional focus on renewable energy. He has developed several start-ups in different fields and works as a seed entrepreneur and a business development consultant in the Middle East region. He aspires to creating peace and sustainability through engineering and education.

Wellars Bahoranye (EWB-Rwanda) is a Civil Engineering and Environmental

Technology professional since 2006. Some projects he has undertaken in the past include:1. Working with Belgium Technical Cooperation (BTC) as an Expert of Infrastructures,

located in Gakenke District2. Working with Private construction Companies as Technical Director and Consultant (eg.

NEFACE Ltd, SERVEXE Ltd, etc.) for designing, supervision, and contracts management3. Working with the Rwandan Government on Contracts (Eg. Quantity Engineer in Rwanda

Transport Development Agency/RTDA; and currently I am the Project Engineer on the Construction works of the Training Center at the Integrated Polytechnics Regional Center / IPRC Kigali, etc)

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Participants


Zarak Khan (EWB-Pakistan) is an experienced engineer who has worked at

National Grid (UK) and most recently USAID (United States Agency for InternationalDevelopment) providing technical assistance and expertise to help Government ofPakistan advance its reform agenda for the energy sector. He also founded EWB-Pakand has been working tirelessly to identify and address issues afflicting theunderprivileged within the society. When he isn’t glued to a computer screen, heenjoys playing the guitar and reading extensively.

Hany Sidhom (EWB-Egypt) is an environmental Engineering graduate from Canada. He founded EWB-Egypt

and works currently in the oil and gas industry as an environmental engineer.

Vigan Jashari (EWB-Kosovo) has been a member of EWB Kosovo since 2005. Initially he was involved as a

researcher and now is a Board member. He has a BA in Computer Science and now is studying for his MA inManagement. He works in Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo since 2009 as a Data Warehouse Specialist. He is a very outgoingperson, very social, and likes to dance

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Tom Logan (EWB-New Zealand) is a PhD student at The Johns Hopkins

University in Environmental Engineering. He is interested in the quantification and modeling of sustainable urbanization as a solution to many world issues. He has been significantly involved with EWBNZ, having been a student chapter president as well as joining the national committee, funding team, marketing, and IT team. He currently acts as the graduate advisor to the Hopkins EWB USA team.

Participants


Phil Clark (EWB-Australia) is married with one grown up daughter living in Melbourne, Australia. He is

an engineer with 30+ years of professional experience mostly in the mineral resource industry sector, includingsenior executive roles based in Australia and Africa with work assignments in many countries. Phil joined EWBAustralia in 2007 as a member of the Melbourne Professional Chapter, becoming Vice President. In 2010 he wasinvited to join the Board of EWB Australia and in 2011 became the Chair. His current business interests includecompany directorships, private advisory work and pro bono activities in the resource industry, not for profit andgovernment sectors. Outside of work Phil is a keen fisherman and traveler.

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Adrian Iglesias (EWB-Bolivia) is an Industrial Enginner from UMSA (a Public University in La Paz). He has

a Masters Degree in International Commerce at the European Business School. He started the first EWB chapterin Bolivia with Afnan Agramont five years ago and has developed 4 projects since. He has a company calledEQSU- Equipment Suppliers, and is the Vice-President of EWB-Bolivia. His goal with EWB-Bolivia is to continuedeveloping more projects in partnership with other EWB-I Members to improve the quality life of the poorestcommunities in his country.

Participants


Afnan Agramont-Akiyama (EWB-Bolivia)

Ladislas Ndabarushimana (EWB-Burundi)

Rachelle Kanyange (EWB-Burundi)

Augustin Ngendakuriyo (EWB-Burundi)

Grace Noella Gatore (EWB-Burundi)

Vered Blass (EWB-Israel)

Hayel Alamoush (EWB-Jordan)

Jerry Osheng (EWB-Kenya)

Besa Abrashi (EWB-Kosovo)

Oladimeji Olutimehin (EWB-Nigeria)

Shahab Saud (EWB-Pakistan)

Benoit Laurin (EWB-Quebec)

Mohamed Selman Khalil (EWB-Sierra Leone)

Lars Pakarinen (EWB-Sweden)

Lwanga Herbert (EWB-Uganda)

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Contact Us


Please contact us for information regarding:

Vivas Kumar

Patty Keck

Cathy Leslie

Tel: +1 832-335-5014Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected]

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Conference Programming

Conference Logistics

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