Mostafa Kamel Elsayed is a highly qualified water resources and environmental engineer with over 30 years of progressive experience designing and implementing a broad spectrum of water resource and environmental management projects of varying scales for sustainable development in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Dr. Elsayed authored and co-authored many publications, from books, peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and conference papers to different project reports. He served as the editor-in-chief of the book titled "Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in the Arab Region" and the book titled "Policy Perspectives for Ecosystems and Water Management in the Arabian Peninsula" by the United Nations University (UNU). A group of highly regarded academics with extensive experience in the Arab region specializing in water management, energy, food, and ecosystems co-edited and co-authored these books. Dr. Elsayed participated in many workshops, seminars, and conferences that addressed different water resources and environmental issues, strategies, and policies in the Middle East and North Africa.

He holds a B.Sc. in civil engineering, a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering, a Ph.D. in water resources management, a sustainability certificate, and a Carbon Auditing diploma. He heads the Middle Regional Office of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) (five Arab countries). At the same time, he is the water resources expert for AOAD (twenty-two Arab countries). He joined Egypt's National Water Research Centre (NWRC), the Ministry of the Environment and Urban Planning, Doha, Qatar, and the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Ontario, Canada. He has experience in a wide range of water, municipal, and environmental issues, including water and wastewater treatment, water resources and environmental engineering, sanitary and stormwater management, environmental monitoring and compliance, monitoring, and control of different water resources, water resources management and development, modeling of water resources systems, environmental policy formulation, the water-energy-food security nexus, water desalination, and environmental sustainability.

Dr. Elsayed holds membership in many professional active organizations working in the field of water resources management on local, regional, and international scales, such as Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), Canada, the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate, Cairo, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula Environment Network (APEN), UNESCO, the UN, and the Nile Basin Water Professionals Grid. He is also certified as a carbon footprint auditor in Egypt.