Nikolay Voutchkov

Nikolay Voutchkov is the Executive Director of the ENOWA Water Innovation Center. ENOWA is a world-class Energy, Water, and Hydrogen company founded in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. NEOM Water sector is focused on improving water performance sustainably, building off the implementation of a world class, smart and connected, water infrastructure in NEOM, utilizing the latest, and future innovation and technology with the best minds in the industry.

From 2009 to 2023, Mr. Voutchkov was the Founder and the Director General of Water Globe Consultants, a US company providing engineering consulting and training services in the field of desalination and water reuse worldwide. For 11 years prior to 2009, Mr. Voutchkov was a Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Director of Poseidon Resources, a US company specializing in developing desalination and water reuse projects. In this capacity, Mr. Voutchkov has served as an expert technical advisor to project developers of over a dozen desalination projects in the US, Mexico, Australia, the Middle East, South Africa, Indonesia, and Singapore.

He participated in the development of the 4^th edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality and assisted with the development of UN-Water Analytical Brief on Unconventional Water Resources (2020); the FAO Guidelines for use of desalinated water in agriculture (2025), as well the World Bank’s Technical Paper on desalination (2019). Mr. Voutchkov has authored over 10 technical books in the field of desalination and water reuse and is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.