About Us

He is experienced in:(1) designing, managing and evaluating the regional and global programmes, (2) developing countries and framework strategies for different programmes and ensured their effective implementation, and (3) developing, advising, managing and facilitating the strategic multi-stakeholders partnerships and their budgetary management in close collaboration and interaction with peers, partners and key stakeholders following the collaborative and consultative processes. He has a strong track record of acquisition from donors and of leveraging the resources of private sector.
He has been proactively supported the acquisition and portfolio development for many GIZ programmes (IWaSP, NatuReS, GIZ International Services, etc). He recruited country teams and promoted a culture of professional development for staff members. He took full interest to develop strategic thematic areas and foster synergies in regard to cross-cutting thematic areas with different GIZ programmes, international and national organisations. He led and coordinated an interdisciplinary team of national and international experts and actively promoted the visibility of results and the work of GIZ in Pakistan and abroad. He is well-connected to development sector, academia and other international (partner) organisations in Europe, Australia, Africa and Asian countries. He remained the permanent member of GIZ Country Management Team (CMT) and played his active role in GIZ annual planning and other decision-making processes.
He possesses PhD in water management from Delft University of Technology of the Netherlands (TU Delft) and has more than 20 years of work experience as project manager, consultant, researcher, facilitator and advisor in the public and private sectors, international development cooperation and academia. Currently, he is leading a new research and consultancy-based initiative — WaterSprint and providing his services mainly to the international development sector.
Before joining WaterSprint, he was working with German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and successfully concluded the global programme worth €26.4m — International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) — as a Country Coordinator / Project Manager. This programme was co-financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Specialties:
Fund acquisition and portfolio development
Budgetary management — Expenditure monitoring, financial and contractual due diligence, etc.
Mitigation of shared water, natural and environmental risks
Stewardship-based water management and disaster resilience
Stewardship-based solutions for economic growth
Sustainable solutions to safeguard the finite natural resources
Water security through vertically-integrated value chain management
Turning technology into business and advisory support to startups and businesses
Advisory support for stakeholder engagement processes and policy formulation and implementation
Coordination and mediation between stakeholders

Have been working as a Water Resources Specialist and Team Leader with international donors and agencies on irrigation project development, contract administration and management, verification of interim payment certificates (IPCs), environmental and social safeguards protection during irrigation infrastructure development, rehabilitation and modernization. Water conservation technologies like laser land leveling, high efficiency irrigation, and conjunctive water management have been important areas of work. Project planning and preparation, implementation and management, reporting, capacity and institutional development are also a strength. Have always been working in multinational and multi-disciplinary projects for introducing and implementing innovative ideas like flexible operational schedules in Chashma Right Bank Canal and Pehur High Level Canal, formation of Farmer Organization (FO) and Water User Organization (WUA) at the upper and tertiary levels of irrigation systems. Have worked with FAO/World Bank, ADB, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colorado State University, Fort Collins (CSU, USA), and MM Pakistan (MMP), Aga Khan Foundation, Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) and Pacific Rim Innovation and Management Exponent, Inc (PRIMEX) of Philippines. Have consistently and successfully worked at all levels of irrigation system in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Afghanistan for improving productivity and increasing rural income. Strong team player with proven record of developing strong links with stakeholders including government departments and the community.

Dr Beekman has a PhD degree in Hydrogeology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam of the Netherlands. He has worked for the past 20+ years in the water sector in many countries of Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Middle East and South Asia. Since 2003 he is a Consultant working on a wide range of water (resource) management related issues. From 2002 until 2003 he was employed as a Senior Hydrogeologist at the CSIR in South Africa focusing on vulnerability of water resources to environmental change and on groundwater recharge. From 1998 to 2001 he was employed as a Technical Advisor by the German Technical Cooperation (now GIZ) and was involved in the reform of the water sector in Zimbabwe. From 1992 to 1997 he worked for the Centre for Development Cooperation Services (CDCS-Vrije Univ. Amsterdam) as a Project Coordinator in Botswana of a groundwater recharge project in collaboration with the University of Botswana and the Botswana Department of Geological Survey. As a Junior Scientist he worked from 1986 to 1991 for the Institute of Earth Sciences – Vrije Univ. Amsterdam on the hydrochemistry of fresh- and seawater intrusions which resulted in a PhD in 1991. From 1985 to 1986 he was employed by the Institute for Public Health and Environmental Protection in The Netherlands and was involved in hydrogeological studies related to waste disposal in the underground. In 1984 he worked for DHV Consultants as Assistant Well Drillings in Saudi Arabia.

A qualified and resourceful Civil Engineer who has worked for about 21 years on various water resources management and planning projects in research and consulting environment. These projects were related to surface and groundwater interaction modeling, spatial hydrological modeling, performance assessment of irrigation system, installation and management of scientific instruments and associated data analysis, hydraulic modelling and training of lined agency staff. He has also expertise in flood management and forecasting studies and hydrological studies. He did his PhD in Applied Hydrology from Charles Sturt University of Australia during 2011.

He has excellent communication skills with ability to relate to people at all levels and prepare reports — strong analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with demonstrated teamwork skills, as well as aptitude to work effectively on own initiative and able to adapt to variety of workplace cultures. He has extensively worked in Australia, Canada and Pakistan on various assignments in the context of water, environment and climate-related topics. He regularly delivers lectures in the University of Lahore as a visiting professor and provides strategic advice, technical guidance and support to us as our associated member and co-worker.

He is internationally recognized project and program management professional. He has managed various world class international projects from concept through to the completion. He has hands on experience in project engineering, project control, global virtual project execution managing multi-project locations around the world, risk management, management of change, team management, procurement and supply chain management, cost management, business process management etc.
His over 20 years of professional experience covers large, medium and small scale programs and projects in different countries — Europe, Asia, Middle East and Far East, Japan, UK, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Azerbaijan, Pakistan and Abu Dhabi. The sectors of experience include water, oil & gas onshore & off-shore, upstream & downstream segments of value chains, subsea production systems & pipelines, drilling & facilities engineering, petrochemical and Civil Engineering. He has worked for notable clients such as Saudi Aramco, BP, AIOC, SABIC, Saudi Royal Commission, NIOC, ADCO, BANAGAS, Agip Gas B.V., OMV, Burullus Gas Company, KOC, ACIC. Arshad has recently served as Capital Projects Delivery Lead at National Grid, UK.
He completed his MSc in Major Programme Management from University of Oxford, Said Business School, UK in 2012. His obtained his BSc in Civil Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 1998. His ongoing professional development covers wide range of subjects including leadership, health and safety, communication, IT, regulations, contracts, finance and commerciality, risk management and quality management etc. Arshad’s performance has been recognized by various organizations where he has served including the latest ‘appreciate silver award’ by National Grid.
He has been the Director of London-based consultancy firm SISA International for over five years. SISA provides project and program management consultancy, and also qualified man power solutions to various international companies including Wood, Mustang, Fluor, Kin-Tec, TRS Staffing, KBR, TSR etc. He is co-founder and Director of WaterSprint.

He holds Master’s degree in the field of GIS and Remote Sensing from the Department of RS/GIS of the Wageningen University of the Netherlands. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of water resources planning and management, acquisition of remotely-sensed data and its processing, hydrological modelling, research and development, etc. He is expert in data collection and its analysis, feasibility studies, water balance studies, satellite data and information, hydrological modelling and forecasting. He has worked on applications of remote sensing and GIS for the hydrological resource planning and management in the Indus Basin. He has managed large teams under different inter-cultural settings in different organisations in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and possesses excellent leadership skills. He has been working in the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) for many years and has many projects on his profile funded by different donor organisations. He has joined WaterSprint as an Expert in the field of GIS and remote sensing.

He holds PhD in the field of Hydraulic Engineering from the Wageningen University of the Netherlands. He has more than 20 years of teaching, research and consultancy experience in the field of water resources engineering and management. His skills encompass hydrologic analysis of surface water and groundwater systems, hydrodynamic modelling of rivers, lakes and canals, design of large- and small- scale irrigation and drainage systems, hydrological forecasting and risk analysis, design of small-scale hydropower systems, water resources planning and management, hydrographic surveying and performance assessment of water systems. He is expert in developing Decision Support System (DSS) for efficient water management. He has worked extensively in the Indus Basin and other international river basins. He has strong interpersonal and team management skills. He has vast experience in managing the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank funded projects in different countries. He would provide strategic guidance and support to this initiative as an advisor and honorary member in our board of directors.

He possesses MSc in Geo-Information Science from Wageningen University and PhD in GIS and remote sensing from Utrecht University of the Netherlands. He is the Chief Technological Officer of WaterSprint. He has vast experience of 21 years in the field of application of GIS and RS ranging from land and water resources planning and management to designing and implementing of spatially and temporally dynamic decision support systems. He has not only hands on experience with spatial database design and implementation, image processing, (3D) spatial analysis, accessibility analysis, web-based GIS viewers design and implementation, but has also led many projects in this domain and trained the professionals. He has worked with different organizations i.e. IWMI, NESPAK, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Nedgraphics (one of the leading GIS developing software company in the Netherland), Atos, Research Institute for Knowledge Systems (RIKS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

He supports us in administration related matter.

He is a civil engineer and has served the Punjab Irrigation Department (PID) for 35 years in different portfolios. He also served as a Chief Engineer (Research) and retired from the department in 2018. He is currently working with us as Chief Engineer Projects.

He holds PhD in Remote Sensing and Applied Hydrology from Charles Sturt University (Australia) and possesses over 8 years of cross-disciplinary experience in GIS, remote sensing, hydrology, application of spatial technologies, risk reduction and disaster management. He has extensively worked on disaster management and space-based applications to safeguard the vulnerable communities and people from natural disasters on the projects implemented by the Pakistani Government and the UN agency. He has also worked on several hydrological and environmental projects located in Murray-Darling Basin (Australia) and utilised his skills and experience of GIS and remote sensing. He also supervised projects related to climate-related disasters and trained the relevant authorities. He has recently joined our team as an expert and would help us to streamline the upcoming projects related to disaster management.

He is a graduate of civil engineering from UET Lahore. He had been working in the Punjab Irrigation Department (PID) of Pakistan since 1985. During his tenure with PID, he remained posted at many different divisions of canal irrigation systems as an Executive Engineer and was responsible for their design, regulation, rehabilitation and upgradation. He has also served as Project Director at Small Dams Organization and supervised the design and construction of 53 dams and associated control systems. He has recently retired as a Chief Engineer (Research) from PID and joined us as General Manager — Project Implementation.

A young civil engineer with Master degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management from NUST Islamabad. His interests and skills include climate change related studies and hydrological models application. Haseeb used to be a research assistant at NUST and instructor at CTTI (FWO). He has recently joined us as Junior Hydrologist.

Abubakar Shafiq holds degree of BBA and MBA (Finance) from Bahria University, Islamabad. He has more than 10 year working experience on multiple projects with different organizations i.e. GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) , NDMA and World Bank. He has joined us as Business Development Coordinator.