Arwa Abdelhay

Commissioner

Professor in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/German Jordanian University (GJU)

Arwa Abdelhay has been a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/German Jordanian University (GJU) since 2010. She holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Grenoble/France and a professional diploma in Humanitarian WASH from IHE Delft University/Netherlands. Prof. Abdelhay served as the dean of the School of Natural Resources Engineering from Sept. 2019 to Sept. 2021.

Prof. Abdelhay has been involved in several internationally funded projects as a coordinator, consultant and team member. She served as a coordinator of the “Humanitarian Master Degree in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene WaSH” Project funded by BHA/USAID and UNICEF. She is also coordinating a project led by GTO and funded by GFFO on strengthening and transforming humanitarian WASH coordination and capacities to achieve climate-sensitive humanitarian WASH assistance. She is currently a consultant for the development of the new “National Climate Change Health Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan of Jordan”

She is also a member of many international environmental projects such as the “Water Security in Jordan: from Data to Decision” project supported by BMBF, “Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)” sponsored by DAAD, “Waste to Positive Energy” funded by GIZ, “Boosting Nexus Framework Implementation in the Mediterranean” funded by PRIMA.

She is currently the co-chair of the water, environment, energy sector committee of the Scientific Research and Innovation Fund and she is also the representative of the MENA region in Sustainable Sanitation Alliance steering Committee. She published more than 25 research papers in international indexed journals.