The founder and for eleven years the head  of the Water Industry Engineering Department at the Kinneret Academic College, the leading Israeli institute for training water engineers.

Ram was a member of the managing committee of the Israeli Water Association for several years and served as a senior consultant to leading Israeli engineering firms and water corporations. He is an expert in the field of water and wastewater treatment technologies and had direct responsibility for these areas as deputy chief engineer in the Israeli national sewerage administration for two years.

Ram obtained his PhD at Imperial College London in 2007, where his thesis focused on the treatment of produced water in ponds systems aimed at the production of highly valuable biomass.

Prior to that, he obtained his MSc from the Technion in 1996, where his thesis centered on the effect of domestic garbage grinders on the sewage systems and wastewater treatment plants. He is still involved in this topic and its implementation to date.

Nowadays, besides his lecturing and research roles as an academic, he is involved in many water-related entrepreneurships, including the development of this international MSc program in water industry engineering.