Boualem (Bo) Hadjerioua

Role: Speaker

Bo has over 35 years of experience in integrated river system operations, and is a visionary for river system modeling, analyses, and optimization that integrate the environmental, social, and economic pillars of sustainable hydropower and pumped storage hydro (PSH) development. At Mesa, he is the Director of the Integrated Water Resource Management, leading the Hydropower and PSH analyses for major U.S. power companies. Prior to Mesa, Bo worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2010 to 2020, where he served as the lead waterpower engineer managing and directing highly qualified teams of scientists and recognized industry and academic experts addressing small-scale to national-scale water resource engineering projects for the US Department of Energy (DOE). From 1991 to 2010, Bo worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority, serving as technical lead expert on several of TVA's core teams.