Dr. Kamran Emami

Dr. Kamran Emami, Iran Dr. Kamran Emami holds a Ph.D in Civil Engineering with 28 years of professional experience in water projects pertaining to Water Resources Management, Flood Management, Value Engineering and Water History. He is currently the Head of the Board and Managing Director with the Kurit Kara Consulting Engineers. Prior to that he was a Technical Adviser to Water and Power Development Company (1993-2007) and Senior Advisor in the Technical Office of Power Ministry, Iran (1994-2005). Dr. Emami has a long working association with ICID and served as its Chairman in various Working Groups on Comprehensive approaches to flood management (WG-AFM); History of Irrigation and Drainage and Flood control (WG-HIST) and Task Force on Value Engineering (TF-VE). Born in 1962, Dr. Emami has conducted around 20 researches on water engineering and flood management and penned many books in Persian and English. He has contributed to around 120 technical papers with keynote lectures in various conferences and workshops. In his professional career, he has also participated as the member of scientific committee in many conferences.