Dr Sommariva is a consultant of international reputation. He is presently the Managing Director of ILF Consulting Engineers Middle East and the head of the worldwide desalination activities of ILF . Dr Sommariva has experience in both thermal, reverse osmosis and waste water system and served in all the major desalination developments in the Middle East in various roles. Dr. Sommariva has a PHD in Chemical Engineering from Genoa University and a diploma in Management from Leicester University.

Dr Sommariva has been President of the European Desalination Society (EDS) and Vice President of the International Desalination Association (IDA) and Chairman of WHO committee for the establishment of safe drinking water from desalination,

He is presently the Technical Co-Chairman of the IDA World Congress in Dubai and he is an honorary Professor at Genoa and L’Aquila Universities where he holds regular courses on desalination and water re-use related matters.

Dr Sommariva published over 50 papers on desalination leading edge research and economics and published a book on desalination management and economics.

Dr Sommariva joined ILF in 2009 after working 9 years with Mott MacDonald where has been leading the desalination and water treatment group as Managing Director of Generation Middle East.

In his early career Dr Sommariva worked in Ansaldo Energia and Italimpianti in various roles in the Middle East