Mr. Joseph Karam

Mr. Joseph Karam

President

ECODIT, Inc.

1800 N. Kent St., Suite 1260

Arlington, VA 22209

USA

Phone: (703) 841 1883

Fax: (703) 841 1885

Joseph Karam, President of ECODIT, the company that is

JOSEPH KARAM

President and co-founder of ECODIT, Inc., is a civil/environmental engineer and economist/policy analyst with over 20 years of experience in providing consulting and technical assistance services to governments and local communities in planning, studying, designing, implementing and evaluating environment and development policies, programs, and projects in nearly 20 countries around the world, with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa.He has worked on projects funded by international development agencies (e.g., World Bank, USAID, USTDA, European Commission, UNDP, UNESCO, and UNIDO), government agencies (e.g., Governments of Lebanon and Morocco), USEPA and state environmental agencies, and private industry.He has successfully directed more than 300 technology and policy projects covering a wide range of national, municipal and local environment and development planning and management issues, including water resource management, wastewater treatment and reuse, solid/hazardous waste management, industrial pollution control, sustainable tourism development, and natural resource management. Mr. Karam holds a M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two engineering degrees from France: one from the Ecole Polytechnique and one from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.He is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.Top

Joseph Karam, IQC Program Director, jkaram@ecodit.com or

Joseph Karam, President, ECODIT

Joseph Karam, President of ECODIT and Project Director.

JOSEPH KARAM
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JOSEPH KARAM

President and co-founder of ECODIT, Inc., is a civil/environmental engineer and economist/policy analyst with over 20 years of experience in providing consulting and technical assistance services to governments and local communities in planning, studying, designing, implementing and evaluating environment and development policies, programs, and projects in nearly 20 countries around the world, with a special focus on the Middle East and North Africa. He has worked on projects funded by international development agencies (e.g., World Bank, USAID, USTDA, European Commission, UNDP, UNESCO, and UNIDO), government agencies (e.g., Governments of Lebanon and Morocco), USEPA and state environmental agencies, and private industry. He has successfully directed more than 300 technology and policy projects covering a wide range of national, municipal and local environment and development planning and management issues, including water resource management, wastewater treatment and reuse, solid/hazardous waste management, industrial pollution control, sustainable tourism development, and natural resource management.

Mr. Karam is the Technical Supervisor for the implementation of the Lebanon Mountain Trail (LMT) project ($3.1 M, 2005-2007), which aims at expanding economic opportunities in rural mountain areas of Lebanon by helping to establish, develop and promote as an international tourist destination a 300-km national hiking trail cutting across Lebanon from North to South. He is the Technical Supervisor for the Jordan Wastewater Treatment and Reuse for Small Communities project ($4M, 2004-2008), which aims to strengthen water and environmental institutions and policies pertaining to wastewater treatment and reuse, demonstrate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of appropriate technologies for the treatment and reuse of domestic wastewater in rural areas, and promote the participation of concerned stakeholders in planning, developing, implementing and operating sustainable local solutions to the problems of raw sewage discharges and irrigation water scarcity.

Mr. Karam holds a M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two engineering degrees from France: one from the Ecole Polytechnique and one from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He is fluent in Arabic, English, and French. Top