The Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE) is pleased to extend its sincere appreciation to the esteemed members of the CEDARE Environmental Innovation Prize 2026 jury panel. Their scientific expertise, professional insight, and dedicated efforts in evaluating the submitted projects have been instrumental in ensuring a fair, transparent, and high-quality assessment process.
Jury Panel Members:
• Prof. Asma Ali Aba Hussain
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Former Vice Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University; Adjunct Professor, PhD Programme in Environment and Sustainable Development, University of Bahrain – Kingdom of Bahrain
• Prof. Nasser Suleiman Al-Amari
Director, Water Research Centre, Faculty of Science
King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Dr Saber Othman
Assistant Minister of Local Development and Environment for Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility; Head of the Central Department for Climate Change, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency; and National Focal Point to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Arab Republic of Egypt
• Dr Mahmoud Fathallah
Director of the Department of Environment and Meteorology and Head of the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment – League of Arab States
• Dr Shireen Nabil Abu Ghazaleh
Director of the Arab Council for Sustainable Development, one of the councils of the Association of Arab Universities; Associate Professor of Private Law, Amman Arab University – Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• Prof. Hesham El-Askary
Professor of Remote Sensing; International Expert in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Earth Observation Technologies for Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability
Chapman University, United States of America
• Eng. Ahmed Abu Saud
Environmental Expert and Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Former Chief Executive Officer of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency – Arab Republic of Egypt
• Dr Omar El Badawy
Water Resources, Land Resources, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Expert
Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE)
We are honoured to have such an outstanding panel of experts serving on the jury. Their expertise, commitment, and thoughtful contributions have been instrumental in ensuring a rigorous and transparent evaluation process, while recognising innovative projects that offer practical solutions to environmental challenges across the Arab region.
