About this Event
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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Eckerd College, 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, United States
USD 0.00
