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Andrei Filotti (1930-)/biography

Andrei Filotti is a Romanian-born engineer, specialized in water management. In 1961-1962 he coordinated the elaboration of the National Plan for the Development of Romania's Water Resources, which established the orientation of the multipurpose use in the following decades. Afterwards, as Chief Engineer of the Research and Design Institute for Water Management he had the responsibility of coordinating the design of detailed water development schemes for specific projects for water use, flood prevention and water quality protection, ensuring their consistency with the general provisions of the National Plaon. For his contribution to the economic development of Romania, he was awarded the Order of Work (Romanian: Ordinul Muncii)

He worked in water management related research having essential contributions in the field of mathematical modelling and use of operations research applied to water management and in the field of economics of water resources development. He was professor of water management and river training at the Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering of the Nicolae Bălcescu Agronomic Institute (now University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest.

Andrei Filotti left Romania in 1982. He worked as Chief Technical Advisor in the United Nations Secretariat coordinating projects in India, Bangladesh, Chad, Senegal, Nigeria and other countries. After retiring from the United Nations Organization he continued working as a consultant for various organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and USAID, concentrating besides environmental engineering also on activities related to fighting corruption.

Andrei Filotti is member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), the General Society of Romanian Engineers (Romanian: Asociația Generală a Inginerilor din România - AGIR) ahd the Association of Former International Civil Servants (AFICS).

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Andrei Filotti 1938

Andrei Filotti as 3rd-grader (1938)

Andrei Filotti was born in Bucharest on October 27, 1930. His father Eugen Filotti was a Romanian diplomat, and his mother Elisabeta Filotti née Taşcă was the daughter of Gheorghe Taşcă, a Romanian economist and politician, who at that time was rector of the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies.

From 1936 to 1940, Andrei Filotti studied in the primary schools of Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria, where his father was posted as plenipotentiary minister. Then from 1940 to 1947 attended the high school at the Gheorghe Lazăr Lyceum of Bucharest, with the exception of school year 1944/45 when he attended school at the Dinicu Golescu Lyceum of Câmpulung-Muscel. Passing the last two classes in a single year, Andrei Filotti graduated as first of his class. He then enrolled as student in the Faculty of Electromechanics of the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. - Read more!


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Robert Pettingill Adams (1674-1769)Abraham Adams (1639-1714)Mary Ingersoll Pettingill (1652-1705)Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
Barbara Al-Fasi (1941-1999)Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Calvert Lorenzo Allred (1864-1932)Sidney Rigdon Allred (1837-1911)Lucy Ann Allred (1845-1906)Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah, United States
Matilda Stewart Allred (1853-1889)Isaac Allred (1788-1870)Matilda Stewart (1808-1900)Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Romeo Almirante (1912-1999)Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy
Kiyoko Atsumi (1949-2017)Tokyo, Kantō region, Japan
Joseph Backhouse (1839-1898)Thomas Backhouse (1803-1884)Harriet Hewit (1804-1864)Garforth, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Mary Bagshaw (1902-1982)Navajo Nation
Daisaku Banno (1988)Goichi Banno (1955-2020)Kawai Fujikawa (1957-2018)Tokyo, Kantō region, Japan
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William Bozeman Adair (1750-1804)Jackson County, Georgia, United States
Platt Adams (1792-1887)Joseph Adams (1746-1832)Charity Hill (1753-1801)New York City, New York, United States
Michael Ainslie (1930-1999)Hugh Ainslie (1910-1969)Alicia Boylan (1906-1970)Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Isaac Allred (1813-1859)James Allred (1784-1876)Elizabeth Warren (1786-1879)Mt Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, United States
Rebecca Amory (1771-1842)John Amory (1728-1803)Katharine Greene (1731-1778)Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Ada Maria Amos (1862-1960)William Amos (1812-1895)Elizabeth Blanch (1821-1910)Grafton, New South Wales, Australia98
Anna Arnold (1789-1874)Joseph Arnold (1761-1796)Deborah Hacker (1764-1799)Hamden, Vinton County, Ohio, United States
Maria Anna von Anhalt-Dessau (1837-1906)Leopold IV. Friedrich von Anhalt-Dessau (1794-1871)Frederica Wilhelmina Louise von Preußen (1796-1850)Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany
Scholastica von Sachsen-Wittenberg (1393-1463)Rudolf III. von Sachsen-Wittenberg (c1367-1419)Anna von Thüringen (c1375-1395)
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Francis Inman Amory (1850-1921)William Amory (1804-1888)Anna Powell Mason Sears (1813-1895)Grace Josephine Minot (1859-1911)Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Robert Amory (1842-1910)James Sullivan Amory (1809-1884)Mary Copley Greene (1817-1892)Marianne Appleton Lawrence (1843-1882)Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Hannah Ball (1725-1811)Philip Goss (1720-1804)Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Francis Baring, 1st Bart (1740-1810)John Baring (1697-1748)Elizabeth Vowler (1707-1766)Harriet Herring (1750-1804)Croydon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Abijah Barnes (1770-1833)Moses Barnes (1732-1781)Hepzibah Osborn (1738-)Abi Bradford (1775-1833)Cheshire, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
Thomas Bates (c1772-1836)Ann Griffin (1784-1864)Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
William Henry Beecher (1802-1889)Lyman Beecher (1775-1863)Roxanna Foote (1775-1818)Katharine Edes (1802-1870)New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Abi Bradford (1775-1833)Robert Bradford (1753-1826)Sarah Cornish (1750-1840)Abijah Barnes (1770-1833)Cheshire, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
Mary Bray (1563-1629)John Bray (1534-1615)Margaret Haslonde (1536-1588)Thomas Whytney (c1560-1657)St. Margarets Church, Westminster, London, England
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 FatherMotherJoined with-g2Wedding2 place
George Andrew Adair (1881-1966)George Washington Adair (1818-1897)Johanna Freestone (1849-1903)Mary Ann Savage (1861-1942)Davis County, Utah
Thomas William Arnold Anson (1913-1958)Thomas Edward Anson, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883-1960)Evelyn Maud Keppel (1887-1945)Monica Neville (1920-1969)
Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709)Berent Bentinck (1597-1668)Anna van Bloemendael (1622-1685)Jane Martha Temple (1672-1751)London, England, United Kingdom
Sarah Carpenter (1826-1914)Thomas Carpenter (1775-1831)Catherine Shaw (1799-1894)Alfred Roland Hawkins (1847-1936)Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia
Edwin Jack Fisher (1928-2010)Joseph Tisch (1900-1972)Gitte Kathrine Winokur (1902-1991)Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-2011)Temple Beth Shalom, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Albert Grolleman (1807-1864)Derk Grolleman (c1760-1835)Janna Krol (c1763-1831)Derksken Stoelhorst (1826-1904)Olst, Salland, Overijssel, Netherlands
Deborah Higginson (1754-1820)Stephen Higginson (1716-1761)Elizabeth Cabot (1715-1797)Joseph Lee (1744-1831)Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Susanna White (1593-1680)Edward Winslow (1595-1655)Plymouth Colony, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Maartje Koopman (1814-1898)Cornelis Koopman (1786-1822)Geertje Bakker (1792-1821)Jacob Wagenaar (1813-1882)Westwoud, North Holland, Netherlands
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