George Kinias

Mr. Kinias has extensive experience in project management, training, environmental sustainability and institutional capacity building in the US and Middle East.

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Most recently he was the CEO of Optimal, LLC, an American consulting firm specializing in training and institutional strengthening of water/wastewater, telecommunications and power generation utilities in the Middle East. Prior to that, he was the project director of a design, construction management and institutional capacity building projects in Egypt, considered to be one of the largest USAID-funded projects in the world.

His US-based experience was in environmental design and training and was one of the pioneers of training and operations and maintenance (O&M) practices of infrastructure facilities. Served as one of the vice presidents of a large environmental firm and was the national director of their training and O&M projects. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kinias was the Executive Director of the National Environmental Training Association and the Director of the Indiana Environmental Training Center.