About me
Reem is the assistant deputy executive administrator of the office of planning at the Texas Water Development Board, and she led the effort to develop Texas’ first state flood plan that was adopted in August 2024. She has more than 23 years of private and public sector experience in engineering, flood risk reduction projects, modeling, mapping, and capital improvement project portfolio management and delivery. Prior to joining the TWDB in 2019, Reem worked for the City of Austin, AECOM, the University of Texas at Austin, and Pasminco Elura Mine and Victoria Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Australia. Reem has a master of science in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of engineering with first class honors from RMIT University in Australia.