Munther J. Haddadin. Founder, Chairman and CEO.

Author, writer, and consultant Dr Haddadin served his country, Jordan, in several crucial fields like economic and social development, institution building, mining, urban development, and academia.  He was a founding member of the Royal Scientific Society (1971-1973), served as Deputy Director(1973-1982) and as Chairman and CEO (1982-1987) of the Jordan Valley Authority that undertook the responsibilities of integrated economic and social development of the Jordan Valley (1973-1987). He managed the conflict over shared water resources separately with Syria and with Israel for many years. He participated in the establishment of the Faculty of Engineering at the Jordan University (1973-1974), and further served on the Boards of the Arab Potash Company (1979-1987) and the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (2012-2016). He was picked to serve in the Jordan delegations to the Middle East Peace Process (1991-1995) where he headed the Jordanian delegation to the Multilateral Peace talks on water resources; served as a senior member on the delegation to the bilateral peace negotiations and was one of a few Jordanians who negotiated the Peace Treaty with Israel, and was responsible for writing and negotiating three of its four annexes. He is credited with the formulation of the grand scheme of the Jordan Rift Valley Development whose backbone is the transportation of sea water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. He presented the scheme to the Trilateral Economic Committee (the USA, Jordan and Israel) and had it inserted under a separate article in the Jordan- Israel Peace Treaty (1994).

Dr Haddadin was then chosen to serve as Minister of Water and Irrigation on Jordan’s Cabinet, and was in that capacity the counterpart to the Israeli Minister of Infrastructure, General Ariel Sharon.  He followed up jointly with his Israeli counterpart on the implementation of the water component of the Peace Treaty, and the Jordan Rift Valley plan.

After distinguished government service in which he had achieved strides in planning and implementation of economic and social development of the Jordan Valley, and successes in water planning and management, Dr. Haddadin was invited to be a courtesy professor at Oregon State University where he taught a quarter every other year. He was invited to be the Second Century Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and was accorded the status of an affiliate professor at that university. He later was invited to be a Courtesy Professor at the university of Central Florida, Orlando. 

Dr. Haddadin served as a member of the World Federation of Scientists in Switzerland (1999-2003).  He further worked as a special adviser to HRH Prince El Hassan Ben Talal of Jordan on matters of regional cooperation and on the subject of terrorism.

Dr. Haddadin was recalled to serve the Jordan Government in 2011 as Chairman and CEO of Mawared, an urban development outfit, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Balqa Applied University in Jordan. He was then selected to be a Senator in the Upper House of Parliament (2018-2022) and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jordan University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Haddadin has authored five books in English and six in Arabic. He has published a score of technical papers in prestigious professional journals, and was awarded the best research paper by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1972, and by the International Water Resources Association in 2001.  He was decorated three times by H.M the King of Jordan, H.M the Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, H.E the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, H.E the President of Italy, H.E the President of Austria, and His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem. 

Born in 1940 to a Christian family in Maien, Jordan, Dr. Haddadin was educated for a year in the Kingdom of Iraq (1957-1958), and at Alexandria University, Egypt (1959-1963) before he pursued his graduate studies at the University of Washington in Seattle (1965-1969), where he earned two graduate degrees.  He is married to an American wife and has two daughters married to Americans in the United States and a son working in Jordan after a dozen years on Wall Street.  Dr. Haddadin was naturalised  as a US Citizen in 1991 and has nine grandchildren.