Prof. Dawoud is water resources advisor with the Environment Agency - ABU DHABI, UAE.  He has graduated in civil engineering with honor degree and got his Master and Ph.D. from Ain Shams University through joint program with Colorado State University, USA.  Since 1991, he has maintained an active program of research and consulting activities, with particular emphasis on groundwater, artificial recharge, Reuse of TSE, desalination, and water resources management. He attended many training course in USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, and France. He worked as a consultant for World Bank, UNESCO, ESCWA and USAID. His current research includes water supply and demand, solar desalination, groundwater management, aquifer storage and recovery, and Reuse of TSE in many countries such as Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Oman, KSA, and UAE. He is an editor in three international journals and reviewer for other 7. He has 5 published books and more than 75 published research papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and international conferences. He got the 2009 Abu Dhabi Excellence Award and 2011 HH Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Award. In 2011 he was awarded by the National Academies-USA as one of best four young Arab water scientists.