Samia Alduaij is an environmental expert working in environmental policy, ESG, sustainable development, natural resource management, environmental governance, ecosystem-based management and climate change. She has worked with the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The European Union, UNESCO and The UK's Center for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences (CEFAS) in the Middle East and North Africa region. She worked on several operational projects and technical assistance programs in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan, Sudan, Djibouti, and Syria, as well as regional marine initiatives in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Gulf.
She was part of the team that developed Kuwait's first Voluntary National Review of the Sustainable Development Goals with The General Secretariat for the Supreme Council for Planning and Development and UNDP. She has also worked closely with the Kuwait Environment Public Authority on environmental governance, climate change mitigation and adaptation and the multilateral environmental agreements.
