Nejib was trained in Paris and Montpellier as an architect and urban
planner. Since 1986, he is collaborating with the United Nations
Centre for Human Settlements-Habitat in many parts of sub-Saharan
Africa as a Chief Technical Advisor.
He is involved in MedWet since 1996, particularly in MedWet2 project
socio-economic issues, and is the author of the MedWet book entitled
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published in 1998 by DG XI, European Commission for the Ramsar
Convention.
He assisted the MedWet Coordination in the preparation of all the
Mediterranean Wetlands Committee meetings held since now, and was
specifically in charge of the organisation of MedCom3 at Djerba,
Tunisia.
On August 2001 he has been appointed by the Ramsar Convention Bureau
as Policy Advisor of the new Coordination Unit established in Athens.
Among his main activities, he is in charge of launching and
facilitating the establishment of the North African Wetlands Network
with the participation of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
He speaks Arabic, French, Greek and English. He is married and has
two daughters.
