Hesham Moustafa Ali
Hesham Moustafa Ali (Ph.D., Colorado State University; M.S., Cairo University) is
director and founder of the Communication Center of the Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources
and Irrigation. He serves as editor of a monthly newsletter and quarterly magazine for the
ministry and has participated in major communication campaigns to raise public awareness of
water scarcity problems in the country. Dr. Ali’s expertise in irrigation systems has been
utilized by the Egyptian government to train irrigation engineers and to conduct research on
the knowledge and practices of Egyptian farmers toward water resources. He is the author of
several papers for international journals and conferences, including the 1998 USICID Conference
on Shared Rivers in Utah and the Nile 2002 Conference, held in Addis Ababa in 2000.
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