Lisa Henthorne, P.E., is presently the President of the International Desalination Association (IDA), and has been a Director of the Board of IDA for ten years. Professionally, Ms. Henthorne is a Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Water Standard. Ms. Henthorne has more than 20 years of experience working in brackish, wastewater, and seawater membrane technology in the U.S. and internationally and has published more than 50 technical papers in her career, in areas of expertise including membrane filtration pretreatment, hybrid desalination and large diameter reverse osmosis desalination.

Ms. Henthorne has an MS in Chemical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and a BS in Chemistry from Missouri State University. She worked in the public sector for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for 13 years in desalination R&D, before moving to the private sector consulting, engineering and construction industry. Ms Henthorne serves on committees/projects for the World Health Organization, the Middle East Desalination Research Center, the U.S. National Research Council, the American Water Works Research Foundation and the Australia National Water Commission. Ms Henthorne resides in the United States.