Director - F Farquharson

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Summary of Curriculum Vitae: Frank Farquharson
FULL NAME			Francis Alexander Keith Farquharson
YEAR OF BIRTH			1948
NATIONALITY			British
PROFESSION			Hydrologist and Water Resources Development, Chartered Civil Engineer
POSITION IN FIRM			Director
RANGE OF EXPERIENCE			Frank Farquharson has extensive experience in hydrology and water resource assessment and development and has worked extensively in the UK and Europe and also throughout Africa, the Indian sub-continent, south-east Asia and the Middle East for the past 30 years. He worked as a hydrologist for Thames Water Authority for two years on groundwater augmentation schemes and development of real-time flood forecasting systems. For the pat 32 years he worked for the Institute of Hydrology at Wallingford in the UK (now called the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), initially as part of the team responsible for publication of the UK Flood Studies Report in 1975, and subsequently on a wide range of applied hydrological problems worldwide. He has specialised in flood estimation and real-time flood forecasting studies, and on water resource assessment and management projects over a wide range of climates.
CAREER SUMMARY			2006-date Director, Water Resource Associates Ltd, England. 1974-2006 Hydrologist and Water Resources Planner, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK (formerly called the Institute of Hydrology). Since 1985, Head of Water Resources Group. Deputy Head of Hydrological Risks and Resources Division, 1972-1974 Hydrologist, Thames Conservancy (later Thames Water Authority), Reading, UK.
EDUCATION			BSc Environmental Sciences, Lancaster University, 1970. MSc Hydrology (by research and Thesis), Lancaster University, 1972.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION			Chartered Civil Engineer since 1979 Member of British Hydrological Society since 1983, President 2008 Company Secretary to International Association of Hydrological Sciences Ltd since 2000.
RECENT WORK			Post-event hydrological analysis of August 2004 flooding at Boscastle, Cornwall. Development of a decision support system for the Karun River, Iran. Team leader of a DFID funded project to assess the impacts of climate change on water resources, sea levels and storm surges in Bangladesh. Project leader of an EU funded project to help national water resources agencies in Africa, Chile and Khazakstan develop integrated water resource management plans and encourage implementation of the EU Water Initiative. Project leader for SADC-HYCOS project. Installation of hydrometric equipment at 50 river gauging stations in 10 countries of SADC which report data back in real time using data collection platforms via METOESAT. Implementation of real-time flood forecasting systems in Indonesia, India and Hong Kong. Flood estimation studies in Uganda, Georgia and Azerbaijan Hydrological and system simulation modelling of Tarbela Reservoir on the Indus River, Pakistan to examine how the operating life might be extended through improved operation, or new engineering.
COUNTRIES OF WORK			United Kingdom, Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India Indonesia, Iran, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Korea, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LANGUAGES			Fluent in English and good knowledge of Portuguese & French
For more information contact Frank Farquharson