Darwish M.K.F. Al Gobaisi

Darwish M.K.F. Al Gobaisi is an electrical engineer who was closely associated with the development of water and energy systems in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for over two decades. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Desalination and Water Resources (DESWARE) ()and the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)(). These publications carrying state-of-the-art knowledge owe their existence to him. He has been engaged in this work since 1996.
Early life
Darwish was born on 21 December 1953 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a Bedouin family and spent much of his childhood in the Liwa Oasis area in the UAE.
Education
He received his higher technical education in Electrical Engineering from the United Kingdom where he received his BSc in 1976 from The University of Westminster and his PhD in 1988 from Loughborough University in Electrical Engineering.
Career
For over two decades since 1976 Darwish was with the Water and Electricity Department (WED), Government of Abu Dhabi, in various positions including Director General, Power & Desalination (P&D) Plants, directing all aspects of activity including planning, development, operation and maintenance of P&D plants. He was responsible for the continuing development of the P&D facilities over the years, the capacity of which at present has reached 3000 megawatts and 200MGD respectively. He has been actively engaged in research and development in an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice, particularly in the aspect of plant modeling, simulation, optimization, control, fault diagnosis and care.
He established the International Centre for Water and Energy Systems in his home town of Abu Dhabi where he works in collaboration with many scholars around the world seeking sustainable solutions to the water and energy systems.
Publications
Darwish authored/coauthored over 40 papers in the fields of power and desalination, water resources and environment. Presently he is leading a large team of internationally renowned experts, in a monumental project, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)(), as its Editor-in-Chief and Co-chairman of the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee. The encyclopedia is the largest online source of state-of-the-art knowledge in the world that was inaugurated at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002.
Encyclopedia of Desalination and Water Resources (DESWARE) appeared in November 2000 as another unique online publication in the field of desalination and water resources. All these have been published by Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK. He has chaired technical sessions in several conferences both at home and abroad, and was the Technical Program Chairman of the IDA World Conference on Desalination and Water Sciences, Abu Dhabi, 18-24 November 1995.
Professional and scholarly bodies
Darwish is a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.; Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K.); Fellow of the Inst. of Measurement and Control (UK); Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK); Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Member, Operations Research Society of America; Member, Institute of Forecasters; Member Instrument Society of America; and Member, International Desalination Association, where served also on its Board of Directors. He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Overseas Sciences and Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences (WAAS).
Personal life
Darwish lives with his family in Abu Dhabi where his time is shared between personal life and work on Human Development and Sustainability Inititatives.

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