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. Reem led the effort to develop and is the primary author of the multiple award-winning statewide flood planning program for the State of Texas. She is also the key author of Texas’ first, the 2024 Texas State Flood Plan, that was adopted on August 15^th, 2024.  Reem oversees the flood planning division and provides technical support to the Water Supply Planning.  She has over 24 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, sixteen-year-old Neal and eleven-year-old Aurko.