Person

Al-Asadi, Jassim

1957

environmental activist and consulting engineer who was born on one of the artificial islands in the Marshes of southern Iraq in July 1957. He obtained his B.A. in Engineering from the University of Technology in Baghdad before embarking on a career in irrigation pumping station engineering, first working for the Governorate of Thi Qar and then for the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources and their Commission for the Restoration of the Iraqi Marshes and Wetlands. After 2003, Jassim Al-Asadi's work focused on restoring the Iraqi marshes and he played a pivotal role in the registration of the Marshes as a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2016. He is presently Managing Director of Nature Iraq, the leading environmental nongovernmental organization in the country