ACWUA Team

Khaldon H. Khashman

Secretary General

Khaldon Khashman is a senior water utilities management expert, who served the water sector in Jordan for more than 25 years, where he started his career at Jordan Drinking Water Corporation in the early eighteens, then filled many vital positions at the Water Authority of Jordan in different service areas in Jordan. Eng. Khaldon Khashman is a member of board of directors at the Water Authority of Jordan, municipal councils, Jordan Engineers Association and other professional organization and a former board member in Jordan Water Company (Miyahuna), Northern Governorates Water Administration and Aqaba Water Company. He attended more than 40 local and international professional training programs covering technical, financial, legal and administrative issue in water utilities. Since 2009 and currently Eng. Khashman is working as the Secretary General for the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA), where he strongly believes in the importance of knowledge and experience transfer between Arab water utilities and promoting ACWUA as regional center of excellence which will partner with water supply and wastewater utilities in Arab countries to provide best practice service delivery to their customers.

Mustafa Nasereddin

Director of Programs and Technical Services

Mustafa Nasereddin is an Environmental and Water Resources Management Consultant who obtained his Master Degree in Integrated Water Resources Management from Cologne University for Applied Sciences. Eng. Mustafa is serving as the Director of Programs and Technical Services at the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA). He is the manager of the Arab Water Week (www.arabwaterweek.org). Before joining ACWUA, Mr. Mustafa worked at the instituting water demand management in Jordan Project "IDARA" as water demand management specialist, where he worked on developing a new standardized water and sanitation plumbing code for Jordan, developing a Master Plumber certification and training program and developing BMP guides for efficient water use at High-Rise and High Density Areas in Jordan. He worked with ECO Consult on many projects related to sustainable development and environmental management, EIA‘s, solid waste management, water demand management, institutional reform and municipal development. During his working experience, Eng. Mustafa was engaged in many projects and assignments with the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the Ministry of Municipal Affairs through collaborating with a wide range of funding agencies. Before joining ECO Consult Mr. Mustafa was a program officer in WEPIA project, where he gained a good experience in public participation in water conservation in rural and poor areas. Also was trained as GIS and Remote Sensing operator at the Natural Resources Authority in Jordan. Mustafa Nasereddin is the IWRM MSc-DAAD alumni representative, and a member of the Water Efficiency (WE) technical committee at the Jordanian Green Building Council (JGBC).

Abbas Hiare

Director of Finance

Abbas obtained his BA degree in Accounting from Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. Abbas has a wide knowledge and considerable experience in all financial issues through his work in different companies as Accountant and Auditor.

Dana Daqqaq

Communications Officer

Dana obtained her M.Sc. degree in Management Information Systems from Hasselt University, Belgium, and her B.Sc degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Jordan. She has attended different Communications and self-development workshops. Dana is the communications officer at ACWUA since March, 2010, she is responsible for ACWUA Membership issues, for organizing the flow of emails, contributing to ACWUA newsletter, press releases and website content management, in addition to handling core but non-major IT issues at ACWUA office. Before joining ACWUA, Dana worked as a Quality Control Officer for Optimiza (A Regional Technology Solutionsand Business Consulting Services Company) on 2 differnet projects (software solutions).
 

Ahmad H. Abu Saleem

Programs and Technical Services Coordinator

Ahmad obtained his M.Sc. degree in Water Resources and Environment Management in 2009 from Balqa Applied University, Jordan in cooperation with Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Before joining ACWUA, Ahmad  worked as water and environment design engineer for Consolidated Consultants on different projects on public awareness, environmental management, EIA‘s, solid waste management, water demand management. He’s ISO 14001 Certified Internal Auditor, had many professional courses on Air and Water Pollution Modelling, GIS, RS and Groundwater flow models.

Rima Yacoub

Rima obtained her BA degree in English Language and Literature in 2006 from Jordan University, Jordan, and is now pursuing her education as an MBA Candidate at the German Jordanian University – Talal Abu Ghazaleh. Before joining ACWUA, Rima worked as a communication and outreach specialist in USAID projects, prior to which she worked as a business development consultant in one of the regional IT companies. Rima also has a massive experience in translation in the areas of law, economics, and finance. Rima will be specializing in Quality Management as part of her higher studies.