Bassel Daher, Ph.D.

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Leadership & Awards

Advancing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus field through global service, editorial excellence, and recognized impact.

Leadership

Executive Board Member,

International Water Resources Association (IWRA)

2022-Present
  • Serving as Chair of the Memberships Committee; directing a strategy to build, maintain and leverage the association’s global membership while cultivating new institutional partnerships; launched activities including a webinar series, intergenerational dialogues, social media campaigns, and Global Networking Cafes.
  • Serving as Co-chair of the Early Career and Young Professionals task force; elevating the role of youth across the association and promoting their contribution to SDG 6, through organizing youth-led webinars, panels, and online video series.
  • Chair of the Scientific Program Committee to the XIX World Water Congress 2025.

Co-Chair,

Zero Hunger Pathways, Sustainable Development Solutions Network

2020-2023
  • Co-led a working group national food and nutrition security experts aimed at applying a systems approach to create evidence-based policy recommendations to address the root causes of hunger and achieve SDG 2 in the United States
  • Organized a dialogue series, including an Independent Dialogue for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, resulting in recommendations for improving the resilience, sustainability, equitability, and nutritional value of food systems
  • Co-authored a report which included policy recommendations for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, which advocated the need for driving system-level transitions

Chair,

Young Professionals Task Force, International Water Resources Association

2020-2022
  • Leading a global team of young water professionals and delivers a Virtual Global Water Networking Café and a webinar series showcasing interdisciplinary and intergenerational research on water 

Executive Board Member,

WEF Nexus in Africa

2020-2022
  • Providing strategic and technical support for the initiative

Vice President ,

American Water Works Association, Texas A&M University Chapter

2017-18
  • Co-established the Texas A&M chapter, led speaker series, networking activities

President,

Biological & Agricultural Engineering Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M

2016-17
  • Launched the ongoing weekly “Brownbag Tuesday” event to provide cross-disciplinary graduate students the opportunity to network and connect

Services

  1. Associate Editor, Frontiers in Sustainability, Resilience 2022-Present
  2. Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Water and Human Systems 2021-Present
  3. Guest Associate Editor, Frontiers in Environmental Economics and Management 2021-Present
  4. Judge, Reboot the Earth Competition, FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2025
  5. Proposal Reviewer, The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Seed Grant Program, Colombia-USA Alliance 2022
  6. Judge, Texas A&M Postdoctoral Research Symposium 2021
    Volunteer, Brazos County Vaccination Hub, College Station, Texas 2021
  7. Scientific Committee, International Water Resources Association Annual Conference 2021
    Scientific Committee, Int’l Conference for Sust. Development, Columbia University 2019-21
  8. Reviewer, high-impact journals, including: Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software, Jurimetrics, Environment Systems & Decisions 2018-21
  9. Judge, The Raymond Ideas Challenge, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University 2019
  10. Judge, Capstone Projects, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering 2016-2018
  11. Young Scientific Program Committee Member, World Water Week 2016, Stockholm, Sweden 2016
  12. Best Poster Judge, Stockholm World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden 2016

Awards, Honors, and Scholarships

1. 50th Anniversary Special Award, International Water Resources Association, XVII World Water Congress, Daegu, South Korea. Dec 2021

  • Recognizing outstanding contributions to water resources research and international collaboration by an early-to-mid career scholar over the association’s 50-year history.

2. 2019 Research Excellence Award, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University. Apr 2019

3. Graduate Student Research and Presentation Travel Awards, Office of Graduate and Professional Studies, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. Received 5 travel grants to present at national and international conferences ($500 each). Aug 2016 – May 2018

4. Texas A&M Water Management and Hydrological Sciences (WMHS) Scholarship Award, Granted three consecutive years ($1000 per year). Aug 2015 – May 2018

5. Best Paper Award, International Conference for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, New York, USA. The Role of WEF Nexus in Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in Morocco. Sept 2017

6. Montgomery Award, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. Recognizing student leaders making major contributions to academic opportunities and quality of life of their fellow graduate students at Texas A&M University ($1000). May 2017

7. Best Poster Award, First Place, Water Daze, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. Towards Bridging the Water Gap in Texas. Apr 2016

8. UNICEF and Beirut Human Rights Film Festival. Second place for a short documentary on “Child Labor in Lebanon”. Oct 2008

Let’s Collaborate

Open to research collaborations, speaking engagements, academic partnerships, and consulting opportunities.

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