The Backbone of Our Organization
Our team is composed of extremely experienced consultants with a background in a wide variety of prestigious organizations,
Dr. Muhammad Arshad, PhD
Chief Executive & Co-founder
PhD Integrated Water Management, 2015, Australian University (ANU), Canberra
Master of Environmental Science, 2008 Australian University(ANU), Canberra
Dr. Arshad has more than 20 years of experience in the management, policy analysis and infrastructure design of Water Supply and Irrigation projects. He has worked with Australian National University, UNICEF, Save the Children and several international development organizations in areas of water science and policy and water infrastructure and its management.
Dr. Arshad has performed and delivered project outcomes as researcher, manager and in technical roles. He has expert skills in the analysis of water policy and water resource economics. He offered technical assistance, due diligence and project management services in disciplines of integrated water management, climate change adaptation and environmental management. Dr. Arshad holds a PhD degree in Integrated Water Resource Management (ANU, Australia, 2015), an MS in Environmental Science (ANU, Australia, 2008) and a BS in Civil Engineering (BUET, Pakistan, 1993). he has authored/co-author 10 publications 3 peer reviewed journal papers, 4 book chapters and 3 conference papers concerning water technology, economics and governance.
Fateme Zare
Associate director / NewCon Australia
P.hD. Environmental and Natural Resources Management, Australian National University
Fateme Zare is a PhD scholar at the Fenner School of Environment and Society. Her research interests mainly span Water resources management, System Dynamics, Decision and policy making and Uncertainty.
She received her project manager and engineer with 6 years of technical experience in the implementation of projects related to water resource management in Iran, where she managed numerous dam studies and hydrological projects, working with both the private sector as well as with the Ministry of Energy, Iran.
Besides this, she has published 4 papers in distinguished journals of hydrological sciences and chaired numerous conferences related to Integrated Water Resources Management in Iran, Morocco and Australia. She has also participated in numerous workshops in Germany, UK and Iran.
Asim Iftikhar
Program MANAGER
B.S. (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering
National University of Science & Technology
Asim Iftikhar is a Mechanical Engineer from NUST. He also possesses a business degree (MBA) pursued alongside his professional tenure. He has four years of experience working at different capacities ranging from designing to information handling. The last portfolio held by him was of account manager at Shell. He is now working as a program manager at NEWCON.
He is majorly responsible for coming up with proposals aimed at ameliorating the socioeconomic conditions of the third world countries. He is also looking after the affairs of climate-change vulnerability and possible interventions in the said cause.
Sunail Khan Husnain
Country Director – Australia
PhD Candidate, Australian National University, Canberra
Masters in Public Policy & Environmental Law; ANU School of Law
Masters in CS & IT (UET); Bachelors in Eng (UET);
Charted professional engineer (CPeng); National Engineering Register (NER); Certified Practicing Project Director (CPPD)
Sunail Khan has been working in Infrastructure Policy, governance and economics as his bread and butter for more than twenty years and is a researcher with ‘The Australian National University’. He has passion for integrated water resource management and is an advocate of sustainable development aimed at achieving quadruple bottom line: Leadership, social, environmental and economic objectives.
Naturally engaging, versatile, adaptable and easy going with advanced public speaking skills, he honestly elaborates pros and cons of proposals (providing sufficient details depending upon the audience interest), influences executives and public leaders to accept a sustainable and robust infrastructure planning proposal, inspires teams to work towards a common goal and often come up with an innovative solution to complex and complicated infrastructure policy challenges and deadlocks.
Mr. Sunail sells ideas and has buy-in from stakeholders at all levels through smart techniques based on fundamental principles. Lastly, he enjoys working in multicultural environment and is an expert in using graphical & pictorial ways of describing a challenge and presenting a proposal – hence, doesn’t have problem dealing with people of different language and cultures.
DR. KEVIN JEANES, PhD
COnsultant
PhD Forest, Water Resource And Environmental Management, 2015, Australian National University, Canbera
Master of Agricultural Studies, 1989, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Dr. Kevin has more than 38 years of experience in the implementation of landscape ecology, natural resource management, institutional support and project management within the water, forest, agriculture, environment, climate change and conservation sectors.
Dr. Kevin has worked with several international development organizations internationally and in Pakistan, with focus on management and implementation of environmental safeguards and climate change adaptation in water resources management, rural development and state development programs.
Sarah Khan
Research Consultant
B.E. (Eng.), University of Lahore.
MSc Environmental Management of Urban & Rural Water, University of Sheffield
Sarah Asif is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist whose research focuses on how human activities and land use affect water quality and quantity (intersection of environmental engineering and water infrastructure sustainability; environmental impact of hydropower as well as construction projects).
Ms. Asif has approximately 8 years of experience as an academic as well as of private sector. Before her assignment at FAST-NU, she was part of faculty at the “University of Lahore”. She has worked with large and medium enterprises in a variety of positions, mainly relating to construction.
Ms. Asif currently works on various tasks related to water resource management and integrated water resource management such as water policy. She has conducted research on natural disaster risk modelling and civil infrastructure systems. Her work involves developing new engineering models to better characterize the impact of future natural disasters, and use that understanding to support decisions to help reduce future losses. It focuses particularly on lifelines (e.g., electric power, water supply) and risk from a regional perspective; on earthquakes and hurricanes. She is currently an Assistant Professor and a core faculty member of the Environment, Water and Disaster disciplines of the Department of Civil Engineering at the “National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU)”. Ms. Asif has a B.E. (Civil Engineering) from University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore; and a MSc. from University of Sheffield.