Farhad Yazdandoost received his university education and gained engineering consulting experience in the U.K. Since joining K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU) -Tehran in 1991, he has served as its Dean of Faculty of Civil Engineering and Vice-Chancellor for Research and is currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor for Global Strategies and International Affairs. While seconded to industry, he has acted as Director General of the Research Bureau of the Water Affairs of the Ministry of Energy-Iran and was later appointed as the founding President of Iran’s national Water Research Institute directing research, innovation and capacity development pertaining to different aspects of water resources management and engineering at national and regional level. Engaging in reconstruction and rehabilitation of Afghanistan’s water sector and commissioning numerous national and regional research and development projects are some of his achievements which he later pursued in his capacity as the director of the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management, under the auspices of UNESCO. 

Water Engineering