INTERVIEW
18
Lootah:The Society of Engineers - UAE has become a communication
platform instilling a culture of innovation and creativity
"World of Engineering" Magazine
Interviews Eng. Hussain Lootah
expertise
and had to meet with one of
e n g in e e r in g the most prominent figures
credits in the UAE, who founded the Society
the
Society
of of Engineers - UAE, and one
Engineers is a semi- of its leaders who made a
governmental remarkable leap therein,
entity, a nonprofit who is His Excellency Engineer
organization, always Hussain Nasser Lootah.
endeavor to provide He is a member of the
best
services
for Executive Council of the
its members, and Emirate of Dubai, and the
enhancing
the Director General of Dubai
excellency
in Municipality, and is the former
the
engineering President of the Society of
sector
in
UAE, Engineers - UAE. Hussain
accompanying Lootah
has
graduated
the
great
leap from the Department of
and
renaissance Civil Engineering, at the
currently happening University of Arizona, USA,
in the Emirates, from in 1980. He held several
its first beginning principal positions, as he
it has been a key initially joined the Ministry of
partner in achieving Electricity and Water, and
progress
and Dubai Municipality, where
the third of
development
in he has occupied several
April,
1979, all fields of the engineering posts, he began as Assistant
the
Society sector in UAE, and this could Department Head, then
of Engineers only have happened through became Director of the
- UAE was the wise and insightful vision Department of Sewage,
established by the Ministry of distinctive minds that were then
Assistant
Director
of Labor and Social Affairs - and still are presiding over General of the Municipality
Ministerial Decree No. 33 of the Association, especially for Environmental Affairs and
the same year, and in order the founders. Talking about Public Health, Then Deputy
to facilitate the increasing the insightful founders of Director General of the
demands
of
professional the association, we have Municipality, until became

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