Dr. Rabia Chaudhry serves as the Authority’s Director of
Water Supply Resilience. In this role, she provides leadership, strategy, and
coordination for establishing a new functional area of the Authority related to
water supply resilience, and establishing a secondary source of drinking water
for the Washington region.
Dr. Chaudhry came to DC Water from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), where she served for four years, including tenure as the National Water
Reuse Expert, for the EPA’s Water Reuse program. Her leadership experience at the EPA
includes driving the creation of a new branch within the EPA’s Office of
Groundwater and Drinking Water to manage more than $1 billion in grant funding.
Prior to her tenure at EPA, Dr. Chaudhry served for six years with the
Millenium Challenge Corporation. She was promoted twice with steadily growing
roles and duties, concluding her service there as the Associate Director for
the Department of Policy and Education. Dr. Chaudhry holds a Ph.D. and a master’s
degree from the University of California, Berkeley, both in Civil and
Environmental Engineering, and holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental
engineering science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.