International Desalination Association

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Board of Directors
President
Dr. Corrado Sommariva
1st Vice President
Mr. Fady Juez
2nd Vice President
Dr. Emilio Gabbrielli
Treasurer
Mr. Michel Canet
Secretary
Mr. Lance D. Johnson
Comptroller
Mr. Randy Truby
Editor
Ms Lisa R. Henthorne
Secretary General
Ms. Patricia A. Burke
Directors
Dr. Abdullah Al Alshaikh
Mr. Ahmed Al-Mudaiheem
Ms. Zamzam Alrakaf
Ms. Ursula Annunziata
Mr. Leon Awerbuch
Dr. Adil Bushnak
Mr. Antonio Casanas
Mr. Guillaume Clairet
Mr. Gary Crisp
Mr. Doug Eisberg
Mr. Saher Cherif
Dr. Nobuya Fujiwara
Mr. Ali Redha Hussain
Dr. Hideo Iwahashi
Mr. Mohamad Jaroudi
Mr. Teng Chye KHOO
Dr. Masaru Kurihara
Mr. Li Youqing
Mr. Imad Makhzoumi
Ms. Shannon McCarthy
Mr. Fayyaz Muddassir Mubeen
Mr. Alistair Munro
Mr. Neil Palmer
Mr. Manuel Pereira
Mr. Miguel Angel Sanz
Mr. Freddy Soon
Dr. Richard Stover
Dr. P.K. Tewari
Prof. Shichang Wang


Directors  
Mr. Saher Cherif
United Arab Emirates
 

Mr. Cherif holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

His career started at Siemens in Beirut in 1983; thereafter he relocated to Riyadh to work with a Siemens affiliate. In 1987 he joined Pharmacia-LKB in the analytical & testing equipment industry in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In 1991 Saher moved to Riyadh as a Country Manager for Kodak for KSA. In 2003, he was appointed General Manager for Philips in Saudi Arabia after which he joined General Electric (GE) as a Board Member & Zone Manager in 2006 and before joining Invensys Operations Management in 2009, Saher worked as the General Manager for Al–Khaldiya group in Kuwait, a leading supplier of high technology systems & products.

Mr. Saher Cherif joined the Future Pipe Industries Group in May 2011 as President & Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this capacity he is responsible for FPI’s group-wide operations.

Prior to joining Future Pipe Industries, Mr. Cherif was the President for the Middle East & North Africa at Invensys Operations Management, responsible for all Invensys activities within the region including P&L, operations management, sales & marketing, business development, training & development, business relationship management, systems staging centers, engineering and delivery & service.