Ray Earle
Water Quality Trading, Co-Chair
rayearle@utvinternet.ie

Ray Earle holds honours master’s degrees in both Civil/Environmental Engineering and Business Administration from University College Dublin and Postgraduate Diplomas in Physical Planning, Project Management and Environmental Impact Assessment from Trinity College Dublin. He has over 25 years experience in public sector management and in civil and environmental engineering research, design, construction and administration.

Since 1997, Mr. Earle has served at Senior Engineer level and as Project Manager with local authorities in the Eastern River Basin District (ERBD) in Ireland and has served on numerous state and international committees addressing Integrated Water Resource Management and the EU Water Framework Directive. In particular he has worked on the Boyne, Liffey, Nanny/Delvin and Vartry/Avoca catchments in Ireland developing integrated monitoring and management systems and initiating innovative decision support systems and rapid assessment techniques re ecological and morphological status. The Water Framework Directive work encompasses the development of a novel web-based River Basin Management System that won the coveted IWA international award for Project Innovation.

His ongoing catchment monitoring and management work continues to engage all the catchment stakeholders including those represented on the ERBD Advisory and Technical Councils. He is currently engaged in completing the adoption of the Eastern River Basin Management Plan and in the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in the ERBD which includes Dublin and is Ireland’s most densely populated and economically active River Basin District.

Mr. Earle is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Water and Environment Society Committee of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. He is Chair of the International Water Association’s Specialist Group on Diffuse Pollution and Eutrophication. He is also Chair of the IWA National Committee in Ireland which is hosted by Engineers Ireland and President of an IWA Global Congress on Water, Energy and Climate that is scheduled to be hosted in Dublin in the spring of 2012.