Name

Banagladeshi

drliakath@yahoo.com

DMD (RP&D), Dhaka WASA, Dhaka

Education

·        Ph. D in Hydraulic Engineering (Land and Water Development) from Wageningen University and the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands in 2002. Medium of instruction was English.

·        M. Sc. in Hydraulic Engineering (Land and Water Development) from the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands in 1995. The course was completed immediately after the completion of Postgraduate Diploma (Hydraulic Engineering) from IHE. Medium of instruction was English.

·        PGD (Postgraduate Diploma) in Hydraulic Engineering (Land and Water Development) from the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands in 1994. Medium of instruction was English.

·        B. Sc. in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1986. Medium of instruction was English.

Key Qualifications

Dr. Md. Liakath Ali has 21 years of experience of working for Water Resource Management and development project planning. During this time he gained qualifications on many key thematic areas of the development, administration, research works, urban planning (especially drainage), national level planning, development of the estuary and teaching.

Dr. Liakath expanded his expertise in the management of floods (flood control, drainage and irrigation), tidal surge, cyclone, drought, salinity, erosion and accretion (including climate change). His key qualification also includes formulation of policy, strategy development, monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management approach. He acquired good experiences in the management of the Coastal Zone of Bangladesh in a sustainable way. Mr. Liakath is qualified for project implementation (including feasibility study) and administrative matter. He is very much capable of dealing with the environmental issues of the project including impact assessment and studies. He has already worked independently having lead role to work with a multidisciplinary team of experts of various disciplines.

He has worked as Senior National Expert (Dutch and DfID funded project of WARPO, MoWR)- as Coastal & Water Engineer and programme development facilitator (for preparing/processing priority investment programme for the development of Coastal Zone) and maintained liaison with 25 GoB agencies regularly. Dr. Liakath has good command on environmental and natural hazard management and vulnerability analysis. He has experiences in Mathematical modelling, GIS modelling and Decision Support System. He has worked for development of integrated coastal resources database and maintains inventories of coastal projects.

He has worked as a Project Manager (Dutch funded project of BWDB, MoWR) and dealing with hydrographic survey, bathymetric survey of the Bangladesh estuary and processing the data and updating the mathematical models. He is very much related to the environmental and morphological process (including changes) of the coastal zone of Bangladesh.

He has good command in report writing, bid reviewing, evaluation and contract documents. Dr. Liakath is very much familiar with the GoB rules and regulations and procurement procedure. He has worked with various international expatriate professionals.

Professional certificate

Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (FIEB).

Professional experience

21 years of experience since passing B.Sc. Engineering

During PhD study supervise M. Sc. students and assisted the regular Master of Engineering students of the Land and Water Development core in Hydraulic Engineering Department at IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

Period

From 1-3-07 to till date (under lien from BWDB)

Office

Estuary Development Program, project of BWDB, MoWR

Position

Project Manager, (Survey & Study Support Unit)

Assignments

Bathymetric surveys for Meghna Estuary of Bangladesh along with micro-level surveys for the support and preparation of viable investment projects and for update the existing database.

Hyro-surveys (marine) of the entire coastal area for the understanding of the hyro-dynamics & the morphological process of the Bay of Bengal.

Investigation and design of potential cross dam

Investigation and implementation of potential erosion control & accelerated land accretion schemes.

Period

From 15-12-2005 to 28-2-2007

Office

Directorate of Planning III, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)

Position

Executive Engineer

Assignments

In charge of the environmental division of the directorate

Very much involved with the planning, monitoring evaluation activities of various water sector project and worked directly under the supervision of director and the chief planning (especially with the policy related matters).

Closely related with the Dutch aided IPSWAM (Integrated Planning for Sustainable Water Management) project.

Period

From 01-01-2003 to 14-12-2005 (under lien from BWDB)

Office

PDO-ICZMP Project, Water Resources Planning Organization (WARPO), Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR)

Position

Senior National expert (Coastal & Water Engineer; Project or Programme Development Facilitator)

Assignments

Involved in Dutch and DFID aided Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan (ICZMP) Project for:

• Formulation of the coastal zone policy
• Formulation of the coastal development strategy
• Development of priority investment programme
• Activities related to enhancing livelihood capacity
• Creation of enabling institutional environment for coastal development
• Development of integrated knowledge base and knowledge management (coastal data base)
• Vulnerability analysis, risk assessment, coping mechanism and disaster management
• Analyzing and assessment of the environmental, hydrological and morphological situation in the coastal zone
• Coastal water management related activities etc. (designing and implementing programmes, projects and activities in the field of coastal protection, coastal polders and land accretion/erosion)
• Reviewing the existing policies, previous studies (MES I & II, CERP etc.), hydrographic survey and planned programmes and activities related to Coastal Zone management
• Reviewing the existing Mathematical Modelling and GIS activities relevant for the coastal zone of Bangladesh (particularly in relation to cyclone surge, erosion, accretion, climate change, drainage and flooding etc.)
• Coordinating with the relevant implementing agencies (through Focal Points (FP) of ICZMP) on coastal survey and mapping activities and formulation of specific project (Concept Notes) and programmes for coastal zone development
• Land zoning activities

Period

From 14-01-91 to 31-12-2002

Office

Directorate of Planning-III (Formerly Directorate of Planning Schemes-IV, EIP), BWDB, Dhaka

Position

Sub-Divisional Engineer

Assignments

Involved in Dutch aided Early Implementation Projects (EIP) & Integrated Planning for Sustainable Water Management (IPSWAM) project for:

·        Planning of physical infrastructures for Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation Schemes;

·        Development of Decision Support Systems to analyze the FCD/I schemes and for multi-criteria analysis;

·        Preparation of feasibility study report for the Polder 39/2D with a new approach of planning with the help of FASSI and EXPERT CHOICE computer model;

·        Worked as a active member of the system planning cell (center of planning expertise in the BWDB) and arranged presentations to disseminate the newly developed planning concept;

·        Water Management Study for the Polder 43/2A considering participatory water management for sustainable water development;

·        Operation and Maintenance (O&M) planning study with participatory approach for sustainable water development for Polder 22 & Polder 43/2E under IPSWAM project;

·        Operation and Maintenance (assessment) study of several Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation (FCD/I) schemes;

·        Preparing feasibility study reports for various projects on Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation (FCD/I) schemes;

·        Design of embankment and drainage channels of the FCD/I schemes;

·        Preparing Project Concept Paper (PCP);

·        Preparing Project Pro-forma (PP);

·        Reviewing design of different hydraulic structures & embankments;

·        Scrutiny of Annual Development Programme (ADP) and Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP);

·        Monitoring progress and quality of the on-going implementation works of EIP schemes all over Bangladesh by field visits;

·        Monitoring Embankment Maintenance Group (EMG) works and Landless Contracting Societies (LCS) works.

Period  

From 11-09-1988 to 13- 01- 1991

Office

Boarder River Cell (Presently abolished)

Position

Assistant Engineer

Assignments

Preliminary assessments and planning processes of three mini barrage construction work (at B-baria, Moulabi bazar and Dinajpur district), data collection, field visits and Project Concept Paper (PCP) formulation.

Period

Since passing B. Sc. Engineering to 31-8-1988

Office

Private service (Drilltech, a group of Property Development Ltd.)

Position

Field Engineer/ Project Engineer

Assignments

• Soil investigation in different parts of Bangladesh;
• Different types of foundation works;
• Drilling of cast-in-situ pilling and its casting;
• Construction and driving of pre-cast pilling;
• Implementation of sand pilling.

Major publications

• “An Integrated Approach for the Improvement of Flood Control and Drainage Schemes in the Coastal Belt of Bangladesh." A PhD thesis published in 2002.

• “Flood Control and Drainage Improvement Possibilities in the Bhanda Beel Area, Surma–Kushiyara Basin, North East Region, Bangladesh.” An M. Sc. thesis published in 1995.

• “New Approach to Water Management in the Polders of Bangladesh”, Workshops on Agricultural Base Development in Tidal Swamp and Estuaries and Environmental Consideration, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and Korean National Committee of ICID, Seoul, Korea, 2001.

• “Climate Change and Water Resources Management in Bangladesh”, Published in a book named “ Climate Change and Water Resources in South Asia” A. A Balkema Publishers, London, UK, 2005

• “Water Management Objectives and their Realization in Coastal Lowland Areas in Bangladesh and Indonesia”, International Workshop on Sustainable Development of Tidal Areas, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and Canadian National Committee of ICID, Montreal, Canada, 2002.

• “Dhaka – A Flood Prone Mega City in The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) Delta”, Prepared for the Urbanized Flood-prone Delta Project, Department of Spatial Planning & Water Management, RIZA Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment, Directorate-General of Public Works and Water Management and Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, the Netherlands- 2005.

• “Flood Protection Measures and Impacts of Climate Change in the Coastal Zone of Bangladesh”, International Symposium on Floods in Coastal Cities under Climate Change Conditions, Asian Institute of Technology Conference Center (AITCC), a Research Project sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Bangkok, Thailand, 2005.

• One of the contributors of the book named “Where Land Meets the Sea”- a UPL publication in 2004, Dhaka.

Training and workshop  (Local/ Foreign)

Attend workshops on International Symposium on Floods in Coastal Cities under Climate Change Conditions, Asian Institute of Technology Conference Center (AITCC), a Research Project sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), Bangkok, Thailand, 2005.

·        Attend workshops on Agricultural Base Development in Tidal Swamp and Estuaries and Environmental Consideration (one week), International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) and Korean National Committee of ICID in 2001, Seoul, Korea

·        Attend 8^th ICID International Drainage Workshop (5 days) in 2000, New Delhi, India.

·        Attend workshop on People’s Participation in Water Sector (2 days) in 1997, Lessons Learned from Experience, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced studies.

·        Attend workshop on Water Management Planning Process (2 days) at Dhaka in 1996, North-east Regional Project (FAP-6), Canadian International Development Agency.

·        Attend course on Management Planning Training (6 days) at Dhaka in 1996, Centre for Management Development.

·        Attend workshop on Zendar and Development (2 days) at Dhaka in 1996, Canadian International Development Agency.

·        Attended workshop on Landless Contracting Societies (2 days in 1993) in Bangladesh Academy of Rural Development (BARD), Comilla, Directorate of Planning Schemes IV (EIP), Bangladesh Water Development Board, Dhaka.

·        Training Course on Hydraulic Modelling (DUFLOW) conducted by Early Implementation Projects (EIP) for 17 days in 1992 at Motijheel, Dhaka.

·        Induction Training on Policies, Procedures, Rules & Regulations, Accounts and Engineering Activities of BWDB (office and field level) from Kaptai Engineering Academy, Kaptai and all over Bangladesh for 7 months in 1990.

·        Attend and organized huge number of seminars, workshops and training programmes during consultancy service period and continuing

Computer skill

·        Received several computer training during the service in BWDB and study periods at IHE, the Netherlands.

·        Very good command of Microsoft Office Software (e.g. MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Photo Editor, etc.).

·        Worked with different Software (related to the work) during several studies in BWDB as well as during the thesis (M.Sc and PhD) studies at IHE in the Netherlands.

·        Good experience in Hydrodynamic mathematical modeling and GIS modeling.

·        Development of decision support system and its application in FCD/I schemes.

Languages

-        English: reading, writing and speaking – excellent

-        Bengali: reading, writing and speaking – excellent

-        Hindi: speaking – good

Country visited

The Netherlands, England, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand and India.