During the last 25 years Mr. Kool built up a broad professional experience as international project manager and senior advisor in international water resources and environmental management projects in the Netherlands, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. As team leader and senior advisor, Mr. Kool worked on numerous integrated water resources management and environmental assignments in the Netherlands, Egypt, Tunisia, Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa, Belgium, Sweden, Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republics as well as Yemen, Jordan, Indonesia, China, Macedonia, Tunisia, Palestine, Syria, and within the EU. Many of these projects were related to sector planning and implementation aspects, organizational and institutional analysis, human and financial resources needs assessments and conflict/problem resolution. Mr. Kool published and presented various papers on international conferences for instance in Geneva, Jerusalem, Kyoto, Damascus, Montreal and The Hague. Mr. Kool holds a M.Sc degree of the University of Utrecht on Geophysics and Hydrology.