Mrs. Habiba Al Marashi
Co-Founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group

Habiba Al Marashi is the co-founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group, a pioneering non-government organisation based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. A UAE national, Habiba began her professional career in government service and was nominated to the Dubai Government Excellence Awards in 2000.

She founded EEG in 1991 with 12 like minded people while she was still holding a seat in the government office.  Under Mrs. Al Marashi’s leadership EEG bloomed from a small voluntary organisation to a large network both locally and globally. She has been instrumental in drawing up EEG’s framework of operations and management systems. EEG became the world’s first environmental NGO to be accredited with the ISO 14001 certification and is the only civil society organization in the region accredited by UNEP and UNCCD.

She has earned EEG local and international recognition as an active, multi-sectoral organisation that has successfully brought the government, private sector and community under the same banner. Under her guidance EEG has launched several one of its kind initiatives in the field of environmental education and awareness, waste management and corporate social responsibility that have effectively mobilised the community to support environment protection measures and campaigns. She is involved in many leading government initiatives on environment at the national, regional and international levels, and is a recognised representative and spokesperson for West Asian Arab nations at high ranking international summits. Personally and at the organisational level, she has won several awards for contributing to environment, community and gender development issues and she was also the first recipient of the Emirates Businesswomen Award in the Professional Category. Recently she has been appointed to the board of UN Global Compact (UN GC), considered to be the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative. Mrs. Al Marashi is also a member of the Women Leaders Intercultural Forum (WLIF). Apart from this she is one of the Founding Members at the Emirates Green Building Council (EGBC) which aims at advancing green building principles for protecting the environment and ensuring sustainability in the United Arab Emirates.

Mrs. Al Marashi is very much involved in the sustainable development movement in the country and the region devoting its programs and campaigns to environmental protection, conservation and corporate social responsibility. Through her work with EEG, Mrs. Al Marashi is keen on campaigning on the adoption of sustainability measures to accompany fast paced growth which characterizes the emerging economies of the region.

 

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