Edwin W. Lee

Overview
He is knowledgeable in public administration for environmental development including programs inlegal and institutional development; policy and strategy formulation; planning; programming and budgets; organization and administration; staff development ; program/project financing; program monitoring; analysis and evaluation; and technology and information transfer.
His formal education started with technical training in advanced electronics during World War II in the U.S. Navy. After discharge from service, he completed a BS degree in civil/sanitary engineering from the University of California-Berkeley in 1950. Subsequently he completed a MSc degree in sanitary engineering from U.C.-Berkeley and a ED degree in sanitary engineering from Stanford University. During the years of professional practice, he continued his academic training with a MPA in public administration from the Golden Gate University, San Francisco and finally concluded his formal academic studies with a DPA in public administration from the University of the Philippines, Manila.

Professional Qualifications and Affiliations
His professional qualifications include registration to practice as a civil engineer (P.Eng.) in the State of California and as a chartered engineer (C.Eng.) in the United Kingdom. He also has a specialty qualification as a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineering. He is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Water Environment Federation and the American Water Works Association. He is also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers(U.K.), Chi Epsilon(honor civil engineer society), Sigma Xi(honor science society) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a retired Sanitary Engineer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commission Corps(Reserve)..

Experience
He has held many duty posts since gaining his undergraduate engineering degree in 1950. These assignments included State, Federal and International agencies and engineering consulting firms. Most of the assignments were in the USA but 20 years were postings in foreign countries located in Europe and Asia. Assignments were conducted with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the U. S. Agency for International Development.
His early engineering career was in posting with public agencies. This included work as a research engineer at the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory, UC-Berkeley in the studies of algae in wastewater treatment processes under Professor William J. Oswald. Other postings included the California Department of Water Resource, the US Corps of Engineers, US Defense Department, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Bureau of Reclamation. In early 1970, he was posted as an environmental health engineer with the World Health Organization of the United Nations to provide technical advisory services in a regional office covering over 30 countries in the Western Pacific of Asia.  Ensuing career involved employment as a staff engineer with the consultant firm of Swanson Oswald Associates. This firm specialized in the studies and designs of Advanced Integrated Pond Systems for the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater. The ownership of this firm was acquired by the Wallace Group in 2002,which has continued the engineering practice of algal pond technologies. During his career he has prepared and published more than 50 technical papers in environmental engineering subjects and has presented more than 30 papers in technical conferences. Aug.2006.