Willem van der Oord

Willem Johan van der Oord (27 September 1919 – 5 September 1985) was a Dutch hydraulic engineer. He was involved in setting up the Mekong Committee and served as its Executive agent from December 1969 until June 1980.^[1][2] He also worked for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.^[3]

Van der Oord was born in Haarlemmermeer in September 1919.^[4] He was elected a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969.^[5] He died in September 1985 at the age of 65.^[6]

References

1. Henriette Litta (1 November 2011). Regimes in Southeast Asia: An Analysis of Environmental Cooperation. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 173. ISBN 978-3-531-94276-6.
2. Thayer Ted Scudder (27 April 2012). The Future of Large Dams: "Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs". Taylor & Francis. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-136-54775-1.
3. Ian Stewart (26 January 1975). "For Asian Agronomists, Hope Lingers". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
4. D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
5. "Willem Johan van der Oord". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016.
6. NRC Handelsblad, 9 September 1985