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NON-RENEWABLE GROUNDWATER RESOURCESAppendix 3: About the contributorsAUTHORSWalid AbderrahmanPhD, is a Professor of water resources management at King Fahd University of Petroleumand Minerals (KFUPM), and Advisor to the Minister of Water and Electricity in Saudi Arabia.His major qualifications, research and teaching experience are in water resources managementespecially non renewable groundwater in Arabian Peninsula, Middle East and NorthAfrica. He has more than 30 years of international experience as a project manager and parttime technical consultant to local, regional and international agencies of the UN.Belkacem AbdousEngineer, specialized in databases and SIG. He has worked at the National Agency ofHydraulic Resources in Algiers, Algeria.Bo AppelgrenPhD, is a UNESCO consultant on policy and institutional issues and a programmingspecialist in transboundary water resources and groundwater management. He has 40 yearsinternational experience and worked as manager and advisor in the private sector and ininternational organizations and has experience from the different regions, and specificallythe Near East, Africa and South East Asia.Mohamed BakhbakhiPhD, is a Professor of Groundwater hydrology at Al Fateh University in Libya. He has morethan 35 years of National and International experience on Water resources management.Worked as Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Dams and Water Resources, as chairman ofGeneral Water Authority in Libya and as an International Project Coordinator, where aStrategy for the utilization of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer was developed (A Trans-Boundary Aquifer System)100Mustapha BesbesPhD in hydrogeology, and expert on aquifers modeling. He has a large experience in thehydrogeology of arid zones. He has worked at the Directorate of Water Resources in Tunisia,