Who We Are

Expert Communications Officer

Arsh Ajmera

Arsh Ajmera works as a Communications Officer at United Nations University MERIT.

Expert JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Mark McCarthy Akrofi

Mark Akrofi is a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow with dual affiliations at UNU-IAS and Kyoto University.

Staff Operations and Programme Assistant

Nuriyah Akung

Nuriyah works as an Operations and Programme Assistant at UNU-IIGH.

Expert Doctoral Researcher

Abdulhakeem Amer Abdulhafed Al-Qubati is a Doctoral Researcher in the project “Resource Nexus Issues Revealed by COVID-19 for Professional Communities in the Agri-Food Supply Chain” at UNU-FLORES and TU Dresden since November 2021.

Advisory Committee Member Chair of Advisory Committee

Prof. Joseph Alcamo

Joseph Alcamo is a Professor of Environmental System Science as well as Director of , at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Expert Emeritus Professor

Prof. Dr. Ludovico Alcorta

Ludovico Alcorta is Professorial Fellow on "Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development" at UNU MERIT, School of Business and Economics, University of Maastricht.

Expert Head of the Resource Nexus Laboratory in Lusatia

Dr. Alexey Alekseenko

Alexey V. Alekseenko is the Head of Resource Nexus Laboratory in Lusatia at UNU-FLORES.

Expert Lead, Critical Minerals and Inclusive Energy Transition

Prof. Saleem Ali

Professor Saleem H. Ali is an environmental security scholar

Expert Associate Research Professor, Health, Humanitarian and Disaster Response

Dr. Osama Ali Maher

Dr. Osama Ali Maher is a public health expert and a dedicated advocate for communities in crisis.

Expert Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence and Disaster Risk Analytics

Dr. Mohammad Alobaidi

Dr. Mohammad Alobaidi specializes in developing scalable AI frameworks and tensor informatics for robust modeling, extreme event analytics, and decision making in natural and built infrastructure systems under uncertainty.