Dr Mark Zeitoun

Department:

• Geography and Environment Department

Position:

• Researcher

LSE phone number: 020 7852 3892

Email: m.zeitoun@lse.ac.uk

Consultancy: Long and Short term

Media experience: TV and Radio

Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAndEnvironment/CEPG/LWRG/Default.htm

Languages:

• Arabic [Spoken: Intermediate; ]
• French [Spoken: Fluent (Broadcast); Written: Fluent]

Summary of research interests and expertise: Dr Zeitoun's area of expertise lies in international trans-boundary water policy, management and negotiations. He leads the London Water Research Group which examines the role that 'power' plays in international trans-boundary environmental co-operation and conflict, otherwise known as 'hydro-hegemony'. River basins in focus include the Jordan, Nile, Tigris - and through the rest of the group - Mekong, Orange and Ganges. He has also worked extensively as a humanitarian-aid water engineer in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Chad/Darfur, Congo-Brazzaville, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. He is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (Canada), the Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (UK) and the International Water Resources Association (USA). Mark also heads the LSE/KCL London Water Research Group, which runs many seminars on hydropolitics (see link, above).

Experience keywords: Water; Trans-boundary Water; Conflict; Water Co-operation: Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Chad/Darfur, Iraq, Baghdad, Basra, Congo, Brazzaville; Humanitarian Aid; Water Relief Work; Water Negotiations; Jordan River; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; water Treaties; Environmental Co-operation; Water Security; Environmental Security; Hydro-Hegemony; Hegemony

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