Adam Zehraoui, Ph. D

Board Member

Dr. Adam is a Board Member at Founders Trust. He has more than 25 years of experience as well as in R&D which have allowed him to make significant contributions to a variety of key projects in civil & environmental engineering.

Dr. Adam’s experience spans design management, project management, construction and O&M of water and wastewater-related projects. Dr. Adam has extensive experience working in municipal settings, as well as interacting and building mutual confidence with communities, officials, and media. Additionally, Dr. Adam has experience working with state and federal agencies on compliance  regulations,  as  well  as  matching  capital  improvement  plans  with  consent decrees/orders execution.

He is an internationally known expert in the following areas of public health: water, wastewater, waste management and in environmental engineering subjects. 

Dr. Adam is a recipient of the US EPA’s Aquarius Award for his leadership in 2019 in municipal water infrastructure projects in East Chicago, Indiana. He has published numerous industry whitepapers on municipal water infrastructure related topics.

Dr. Adam is highly skilled in utilizing statistical IT and data mining skills to acquire deep insights into future projects, planning, and decision making as is related to determining the optimum projects to be achieved in terms of technology, size, time, and control of execution.

Dr. Adam’s skills are increasingly required for modern utilities management and are applied in leak detection/reduction in water distribution systems, billing systems, GIS, water modeling, real- time monitoring/control, and facility case-base maintenance, among other applications.