Layla Almusawi

About

Layla

Vice Chair, CEO ASPD
Dr Al-Musawi is the program manager for Publicizing and Dissemination of Science and Technology, within the Scientific Culture Directorate at the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. Dr. Al-Musawi has also served as the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to the Director General of the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), and was the team leader of the Kuwait Food Security and Investment Strategy, developed by ICBA, for the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA). Prior to that, she served as the Scientific Consultant and Program Manager to the Regional Organization to Protect the Marine Environment (ROPME) in Kuwait. Dr Al-Musawi was also extensively involved in the Kuwait Environmental Rehabilitation Program (KERP) to remediated war related damages, funded by the United Nation Compensation Commission (UNCC). She was the lead author to realign Kuwait’s National Strategy and Action Plan (NAP) with the 10-Year Strategy of the United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification.