Hormoz Pazwash, Ph.D., earned his BS, CE with the highest honor among the entire graduating class of 1963 from Tehran University. He continued his graduate studies under the supervision of the late Dr. Ven Te Chow at the University of Illinois, in Urbana-Champaign, earning an MS and PhD in civil engineering. In 1970, he joined the Faculty of Engineering at Tehran University, and in the next seven years, held the positions of assistant professor, associate professor, and chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. His other academic appointments have included visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkley; the University of Akron in Ohio; and associate professorship at Northeastern University in Boston. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Dr. Pazwash has received various academic awards, including a fellowship at Tehran University and a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of California, Berkley. Since 1985, he has been engaged in engineering practice and is currently a part-time consultant with Italconsult (a large global firm) which acquired Boswell Engineering in April 2018. Dr. Pazwash is the author of some 60 papers, five books, including Urban Storm Water Management, 2nd Edition 2016, and a chapter of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published September 2014. He is a lifetime member and a Fellow of the ASCE and a Water Resources Engineer Diplomat of the AAWRE.