Roger Babcock

Roger Babcock Jr., PhD, PE is the Director, Department of Environmental Services (ENV) for the City and County of Honolulu a position he began in January 2022. In 2021, he was the City’s Chief Engineer and Director of the Department of Facility Maintenance and served on the Honolulu Board of Water Supply. He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UCLA in 1991, worked as a consultant in California, and then as a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1995 to 2020. He has Professional Engineering licenses in California and Hawaii. Dr. Babcock conducted research on a wide variety of water/wastewater/stormwater topics during his 25 years at UH and advised 85 Master’s and PhD students. He is a past president of the Hawaii Section of ASCE and the Hawaii Water Environment Association, and was the 2019 Engineer of the Year for Hawaii and in 2024 for ASCE Region 8.