The NYUAD Water Research Center Advisory Board guides the Center's strategic direction and alignment with regional and global industrial needs ensuring that research remains relevant as well as applicable to the UAE’s greater vision for water security and sustainable development. Advisory Board members are involved in early research stages into product development and pilot testing phases of new technologies.
The Advisory Board members are key industry and government stakeholders from the water, energy, infrastructure and agriculture sector. Members include local, regional and international public and private sector individuals who are executive level decision makers or academic leaders in their respective organizations.
Meeting Schedule
The advisory board meets once annually for a day-long detailed discussion on the Center’s strategies and goals, and occasional (e.g. quarterly to biannual) one-hour meetings for progress updates.
Before joining ORNL in 2015 to manage the Laboratory’s Office of Institutional and Strategic Planning and its Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Dr. Khaleel was executive director of the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, where he led the establishment and execution of programs in renewable energy, water conservation, and atmospheric sciences.
Earlier, during a 20-year career at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Dr. Khaleel held several technical and senior managerial positions. He directed PNNL’s Computational Sciences and Mathematics Division from 2003 to 2013 and was co-founder of the Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing at the University of Washington.
Dr. Khaleel received his doctorate in structural mechanics from Washington State University and an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington. He is an adjunct professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.