Eng. Tariq Ghassan Alghaffari is Deputy Governor for Research and Innovative Projects, where he focuses on research innovation, development, engineering, procurement, and execution of projects for the desalination industry aligning with the vision and goals of 2030 through SWA’s capabilities. During the Pandemic (COVID-19) through innovative solutions one of the projects achieved a world Guinness record "Lowest Energy Consumption in the world for water desalination plant 2.271 KWh per meter cubic". Tariq holds a PMP®️ , certificate Harvard business school, and many other related professional certificates and a bachelor of chemical engineering from Washington State University USA.