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Willem Johan van der Oord (27 September 1919 – 5 September 1985) was a Dutch hydraulic engineer. He was involved in setting up the Mekong Committee and served as its Executive agent from December 1969 until June 1980. He also worked for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

Van der Oord was born in Haarlemmermeer in September 1919. He was elected a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. He died in September 1985 at the age of 65.

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1. Henriette Litta (1 November 2011). Regimes in Southeast Asia: An Analysis of Environmental Cooperation. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 173. ISBN 978-3-531-94276-6.
2. Thayer Ted Scudder (27 April 2012). The Future of Large Dams: "Dealing with Social, Environmental, Institutional and Political Costs". Taylor & Francis. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-136-54775-1.
3. Ian Stewart (26 January 1975). "For Asian Agronomists, Hope Lingers". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
4. D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 320. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
5. "Willem Johan van der Oord". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016.
6. NRC Handelsblad, 9 September 1985

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