Nasser Yassin Former Minister of Environment, The Lebanese Republic & Associate Professor of Policy and Planning, American University of Beirut

Nasser Yassin is the Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Beirut. He served as Lebanon’s Minister of Environment from 2021 to 2025. During that time he also coordinated the country’s national emergency response during the 2023–24 war on Lebanon. He was previously a professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where he directed the university’s public policy institute and founded the AUB Crisis Observatory. He advises governments and UN agencies on planning, governance and crisis management, and is a visiting professor at several universities across the Middle East and the Gulf.