Rashid Ahmad Bin-Fahad, Ph.D., has been elected to the ASTM board of directors for the term 2007 to 2009. He is secretary general of the Standardization Organization of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf GCC Standardization Organization (GSO) and board vice chairman and head of the Executive Committee for the Emirates Authority for Standards and Metrology (ESMA).

Bin-Fahad lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

An ASTM member through the memorandum of understanding program, Bin-Fahad’s career has included standards, the environment, food control, and wastewater treatment. Before assuming his current roles at the GCC Standardization Organization and ESMA, Bin-Fahad was deputy director general for ESMA. Previously, he had held positions as head of the Food and Environment Laboratory for the Dubai Municipality and as a process engineer for the Dubai Wastewater Treatment Plant, both in the United Arab Emirates.

Bin-Fahad holds a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass., awarded in 1989. He earned his M.Sc. in environmental science in 1994 from the University of the United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, and his Ph.D. in civil engineering (environmental health) in 2001 from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Bin-Fahad has also attended numerous programs related to standardization, conformity assessment, and metrology, and he has been involved in workshops on planning, quality management and quality assurance, as well as other training related to his professional work.

In addition to his ASTM membership, Bin-Fahad is affiliated with the Higher Committee for the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, the world’s largest environmental prize, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; the International Water Association, United Kingdom; Water Science and Technology, Kingdom of Bahrain; and is on the board of the Happy Family Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He has also served as a negotiator for the UAE–U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

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