Country Experience: Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Yemen.
Lama is a water and sanitation specialist with more than 20 years of experience working in low-middle income countries and fragile states, including over 10 years of experience as an environmental consultant. Her experience ranges from humanitarian crisis, particularly in conflict areas, to protracted crisis and long-term development in the MENA region.
As an environmental scientist and consultant, Lama specialised in the environmental impact assessment of large-scale development projects in urban and rural contexts, and has worked for many years in the field of solid waste management. She also has considerable experience in environmental advocacy and campaigns.
Working in the field of water and sanitation, Lama focuses on transitional and sustainable development, strategic programme development, research, support to utilities, management of construction contracts, and capacity building.
Lama received a BS in agricultural engineering and an MS in Environmental Sciences from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, where her thesis focused on the environmental analysis of urban and peri-urban agricultural systems along coastal zones. She has also extensively researched resilience mechanisms of large scale social-ecological systems.