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Director of Global Water Assessment Unit of UNESCO
Olcay Ünver is the Coordinator of the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme of the UN-Water and the Director of Global Water Assessment Unit of UNESCO. Prior to joining UNESCO in 2007, he was with Kent State University, USA where he was a distinguished professor of water resources since 2004. During his time at Kent State, he was one of the founding members of the Euphrates-Tigris Initiative for Cooperation (ETIC), a track-two program that aims to support and strengthen the track-one efforts in the Euphrates-Tigris basin. He served for 13 years as the president of the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) Regional Development Administration in Turkey. Mr. Ünver also has taken up leadership duties in various international organizations such as a Board Member and the Treasurer of the World Water Council (1995-2003); Vice-President and Secretary-General of the International Water Resources Association (2001-2006) and a council member of the International Hydropower Association (1997-2000). He was named “a European Visionary” by the Time Magazine in 1999. Mr. Ünver holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, USA and Master's and Bachelor's degrees, also in Civil Engineering, from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
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