Dr. Mehdi Zarghami holds a PhD in Civil Engineering with a focus on Water Resources Management from Sharif University of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1998 and his Master of Science in Socio-Economic Systems Engineering from the Institute of Management and Planning Education and Research in 2001. He has collaborated with the Universities of Arizona, Tufts, and MIT in the field of decision-making and water diplomacy, and was a professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Tabriz until 2002. He moved to the University of Tehran in 2003 and became a faculty member of the Water Governance Department at the Faculty of Governance. He collaborated in establishing the Environmental Research Institute of the University of Tabriz, the Azerbaijan Water Dialogue Chamber NGO, and the Water Diplomacy Association. In 2019, he was responsible for the Secretariat of the Supreme Water Council at the Ministry of Energy, then he collaborated with the Energy, Water, and Environment Research Institute, the Policy Research Institute at Sharif University of Technology, and is currently collaborating with the National Elite Foundation. Dr. Zarghami is also the editor-in-chief of the Iranian Journal of Water Resources Research and the deputy director of the Governance Laboratory at the University of Tehran.