Ben Stanford, PhD
Associate Vice President
Ben serves as Hazen's Digital Services Lead, shaping the Firm's digital strategy and helping clients achieve their goals in implementing advanced technology solutions for drinking water, water reuse, and wastewater utilities. He has extensive experience managing multi-disciplinary projects related to digital and physical technologies. He is an internationally recognized expert in potable reuse, water chemistry, water quality, and trace contaminant research, and actively leads studies for both clients and foundations. With this mix of technical and leadership skills, Ben also routinely consults with utility executives and their teams on sustainable leadership strategies, strategic planning, utility benchmarking, and digital transformation.
- Areas of Expertise
- Technology evaluation and implementation
- Big data analytics, artificial intelligence
- App and platform development for utility management
- Enterprise risk management, AWIA compliance
- Water quality and treatment
- Emerging contaminants, future regulations
- Advanced treatment technologies
- Professional Activities
- Water Research Foundation (WRF)
- American Water Works Association (AWWA), CCL3 Technical Advisory Work Group
- International Water Association (IWA)
- Water Environment Federation (WEF)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Education
- Duke Leadership Program, Duke Fuqua School of Business
- Wharton Executive Education, University of Pennsylvania, Leading and Managing People
- PhD, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, The University of North Carolina
- BS, Chemistry, Warren Wilson College
- Certification/License
- FEMA ICS-100 Certified
- AWWA Utility Risk and Resilience Certificate
