Elfatih Ali Babiker Eltahir (Arabic: الفاتح علي بابكر الطاهر, born October 1961) is a Sudanese[2] -American[1] Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and Director of the MIT-UM6P Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He then completed a Master of Science (First Class Honours) in hydrology at the National University of Ireland in 1988, and winning the McLaughlin Award.
[6][7] His project was about the “interactions of hydrology and climate in the Amazon basin”, which was funded by the NASA Fellowship in Global Change Research and was supervised by Rafael L.
[9][non-primary source needed] He is the H.M. King Bhumibol Professor of Hydrology and Climate, and the Director of the MIT-Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) Research Program which focuses on sustainable development in Africa.
[1][9][non-primary source needed] Eltahir has six siblings, and married Shahinaz Ahmed Badri in December 1991.