M. Antoine JANHO HREICH

École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Beyrouth

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(+961) 1 421 000 ext antoine.hreiche@usj.edu.lb

Dr. Hreiche is a Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering related Water Land Resources at Saint-Joseph University (USJ) the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Lebanon. He has taught and conducted research at the Regional Centre for Water and Environment (CREEN) at Saint-Joseph University since 2001. Moreover, he is a highly qualified senior water resources and infrastructure expert with over 25 years of professional experience, research, and consultancy work, with extensive regional and international expertise in water resources planning and engineering. His work covers master planning, management, and design of large-scale land and urban hydraulic structures for major infrastructure projects in the Middle East. Dr. Hreiche’s background is diverse. He began his academic studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Saint-Joseph University, attaining an MS in Water Sciences. However, the issues of water scarcity soon directed him to study water resources with a focus on quality as well as quantity. He subsequently received a PhD in Hydrology in 2003 from Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc (Université Montpellier II) in France. His dissertation focused on rainfall-runoff modeling in a Mediterranean climate. From 2003 to 2009, he worked at Saint-Joseph University as an assistant professor, and since 2009, he has served as an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Saint-Joseph University and as a Senior Lecturer at the Lebanese American University. In 1998, he served as a Water Resources Engineer at DAR (Shair and Partners) in Beirut, Lebanon, where he focused on a variety of infrastructure projects, including water supply and wastewater network design, flood and stormwater drainage studies, small dams, and environmental studies in Lebanon and other countries. From 2003 until 2010, Dr. Hreiche worked as a consultant with World Vision, leading the development of several hill lakes in Lebanon. He also worked as a consultant for the Italian Cooperation, leading the design and implementation of several municipal infrastructure projects. From 2008 to 2013, he provided technical assistance for the Ministry of Energy and Water, the Litani Water Authority, and water establishments in Lebanon (MOTGE-EuropeAid project and LRBMS-USAID project). In 2010, Dr. Hreiche joined SETS as Founder and Director of the Land, Water, and Environment Department, managing the firm’s operations, and responsible for technical management, quality assurance, and project monitoring. He worked on various water supply studies in Saudi Arabia and other countries (Schlumberger, Veolia, etc.), gaining valuable knowledge of feasibility and comparative cost studies, as well as the preliminary and final design of such schemes. He was also involved in master plans for infrastructure development in several countries. Dr. Hreiche was involved in the design of water and wastewater treatment plants in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. He led numerous WASH projects for the European Union Delegation, Italian Cooperation, USAID, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), GIZ, World Vision, Save the Children, ACTED, CARE International, and Action Against Hunger. These projects aimed to improve living conditions for refugee gatherings and host communities and to strengthen resilience to water, sanitation, and hygiene-related diseases among Lebanese host communities and refugees from Palestine and Syria. Dr. Hreiche has extensive experience in hydraulic modeling and Non-Revenue Water and has been continuously working for more than 20 years with various water services (Water Establishments in Lebanon, National Water Company in Taif, Riyadh, Jeddah, and Mecca, etc.) and has developed a wide-ranging experience in all aspects of water distribution network management. Dr. Hreiche has wide experience in monitoring and evaluating projects on both local and regional scales, serving as a consultant for numerous individual projects as well as various international projects (EU Delegation to Lebanon, International NGOs). Dr. Hreiche has taught courses on water distribution and treatment, hydraulic model optimization, wastewater network and treatment, irrigation, fluid mechanics, hydraulics, and infrastructure. He has offered both on-campus and online courses and has participated in several international seminars and meetings in China, Japan, the United States, Germany, France, South Africa, and Italy. Dr. Hreiche is the author and co-author of numerous articles published in international scientific journals and has presented at many international and regional conferences.