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Final List of Participants 1.Pdf Sustainable Water Integrated Management - Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM) Project funded by the European Union Day 1 Title First Name SURNAME Position Organisation Email Country 1 Mrs Miriam BALABAN Secretary General EUROPEAN DESALINATION [email protected] ITALY SOCIETY 2 Mr. Mohammed BLINDA Water Programme ONEP/MAP/Plan Bleu [email protected] FRANCE Officer 3 Mr. Adil BUSHNAK Chairman MOYA BUSHNAK [email protected] SAUDI ARABIA 4 Mr. Vangelis CONSTANTIANOS Technical Director SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 5 Mr. Stavros DAMIANIDIS Project Director SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 6 Mr. Hosny EL KHORDAGUI Team Leader SWIM-SM [email protected] EGYPT 7 Mr. Fotis EVANGELATOS Reporter SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 8 Ms. Tatiana HEMA MED POL UNITED NATIONS [email protected] GREECE Programme Officer ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME, MEDITERRANEAN ACTION PLAN 9 Ms. Victoria LAINA Administration SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 10 Ms. Alessandra SENSI Programme Development and Co- [email protected] BELGIUM Manager, Unit F.4 - operation Directorate- Regional General Neighbourhood European Commission South EuropeAid 11 Mrs. Lia TRAVLOU Event Coordinator SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 12 Mr. Nicos TSIOURTIS Director, Technical NT WATER PROS Ltd [email protected] CYPRUS Consultant 1 CORE DESALINATION GROUP MEETING – ASSESSMENT OF BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DESALINATION IN RURAL/LOCAL AREAS IN THE SWIM-SM PROJECT COUNTRIES Athens-Greece, 11-12 June 2012 Sustainable Water Integrated Management - Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM) Project funded by the European Union Day 2 Title First Name SURNAME Position Organisation Email Country 1 Mr. Rateb AL-ADWAN Director of water Ministry of water and [email protected] JORDAN desalination dept irrigation of Jordan - Water authority 2 Mrs Miriam BALABAN Secretary General EUROPEAN DESALINATION [email protected] ITALY SOCIETY 3 Mr Omar BENJELLOUN INGENIEUR EN CHEF MINISTERE DE L’ENERGIE, [email protected] MORROCO CHARGE DE MISSION DES MINES, DE L’EAU ET DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT 4 Mr. Mohammed BLINDA Water Programme ONEP/MAP/Plan Bleu [email protected] FRANCE Officer 5 Mr. Adil BUSHNAK Chairman MOYA BUSHNAK [email protected] SAUDI ARABIA 6 Mr. Vangelis CONSTANTIANOS Technical Director SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 7 Mr. Stavros DAMIANIDIS Project Director SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 8 Mr. Hosny EL KHORDAGUI Team Leader SWIM-SM [email protected] EGYPT 9 Mr. Maher ELNAJJAR Deputy General Coastal Municipalities [email protected] PALESTINE Director for Policies Water Utilities & Planning Affairs 10 Mr. Fotis EVANGELATOS Raporter SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 11 Mrs. Hila GIL Chief Engineer Israel Water Authority [email protected] ISRAEL 12 Ms. Victoria LAINA Administrator SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 2 CORE DESALINATION GROUP MEETING – ASSESSMENT OF BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DESALINATION IN RURAL/LOCAL AREAS IN THE SWIM-SM PROJECT COUNTRIES Athens-Greece, 11-12 June 2012 Sustainable Water Integrated Management - Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM) Project funded by the European Union 13 Mr. Khaled LEMAISSI Ingénieur – Chargé Cabinet [email protected] ALGERIA d’Etudes et de Synthèse 14 Ms. Alessandra SENSI Program Manager, Development and Co- [email protected] BELGIUM Unit F.4 - Regional operation Directorate- Neighbourhood General South European Commission EuropeAid 15 Mrs. Lia TRAVLOU Event Coordinator SWIM-SM [email protected] GREECE 16 Mr. Nicos TSIOURTIS Director, Technical NT WATER PROS Ltd [email protected] CYPRUS Consultant 3 CORE DESALINATION GROUP MEETING – ASSESSMENT OF BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DESALINATION IN RURAL/LOCAL AREAS IN THE SWIM-SM PROJECT COUNTRIES Athens-Greece, 11-12 June 2012.
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