Dr. William E. Roper currently serves as a Research Professor at George Mason University and a visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Senior dvisor at the consulting firm of Dawson & Associates in Washington D.C. and a founding Director and President of the Rivers of the World (ROW) Foundation. Prior to joining George Mason he was Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at George Washington University. He is a former Federal Senior Executive having served as the Director of the US Army Corps of Engineers World-Wide Civil Works Research and Development Program and Director and CEO of the
Army Geospatial Center. He also was a senior manager with the US Environmental Protection Agency in the Office of Air, Noise and Radiation. While in academia he has lead research and support programs with the Environmental Protection Agency, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Arlington County Government, National Institute of Science and Technology, America on Line and the Army’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He has also lead international research, development and
assistance programs in Japan, the Peoples Republic of China, India, Ethiopia, Egypt, Brazil, United Kingdom, Russia and the Philippines. He is the author 33 of over 150 technical papers.