About Our Speakers

Bio

Reem Zoun, PE, CFM, is the Assistant Deputy Executive Administrator of the Office of Planning at the Texas Water Development Board and is leading the effort for developing the statewide flood planning program and the delivery of the first sets of regional flood plans for the State of Texas. Reem is currently leading and actively working on developing the 2024 Texas State Flood Plan.  She has over 22 years of private and public sector experience in engineering, flood risk reduction projects, modeling, mapping, capital improvement project portfolio management and delivery, management, and leadership. Prior to joining the TWDB in 2019, Reem worked for the City of Austin, AECOM, the University of Texas at Austin, Pasminco Elura Mine, and Victoria Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Australia. Reem has multiple publications and presented in various conferences.

Reem has a MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering with First Class Honours from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Reem received the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Austin Branch 2017 Civil Engineer of the Year award. In 2011, she was awarded as the Young Engineer of the Year by Texas Society of Professional Engineers Travis Chapter.

A runner and a gardener, Reem’s favorite part of life is being the mother of her two boys, fourteen-year-old Neal and ten-year-old Aurko.