Hello, I am
Bassel Daher
Assistant Director for Sustainable Development and Consultant
Let’s work together toward a world that is more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and resource-secure for all
About Me
Welcome to my personal webpage!
As an interdisciplinary-trained professional, my mission is to contribute to creating a more sustainable, resilient, equitable, and resource-secure world for all.
I am dedicated to advancing systems approaches that acknowledge the complexity and interconnectedness of our global challenges, particularly on issues related to food system transformation, energy transition, integrated water management, disaster risk reduction, planetary health, and climate action.
My work emphasizes inclusive, evidence-based, community-engaged approaches toward improved cross-sectoral collaboration, policy coherence, and Sustainable Development.
Approach and Applications
Guided by SYSTEMS THINKING to:
- DEVELOP analytics to evaluate the impact of technological, policy, and behavioral interventions on interconnected resource systems.
- CATALYZE a dialogue around trade-offs associated with different cross-sectoral decisions.
- SUPPORT the development of evidence-based decisions for better management and governance of interconnected resource systems.
Applications of interest include
- Operationalizing water-energy-food-health nexus concepts at multiple scales.
- Sustainable and resilient food systems.
- Climate-smart agricultural technologies and innovations.
- Understanding migration and climate change impacts on interconnected resource systems.
- Community-engaged enegy transition.
- Transitioning to zero-waste circular economies.
- Disaster risk reduction.
- Advancing human and planetary health.
Publications
Simplexifying Sustainability
How can sustainability science avoid paralysis in the face of complexity and ensure it catalyses meaningful action?
Food policy monitoring in the Near East and North Africa region | Digital solutions for small-scale farmers in the NENA region: opportunities and challenges
In the second quarter of 2025, the food security situation in the Near East and North Africa
Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction
This special report examines the past, present and future applications of technology in advancing disaster risk reduction
Quantifying sustainability and resilience in food systems: a systematic analysis for evaluating the convergence of current methodologies and metrics
The global food system faces multiple challenges including growing demand, climate change, conflicts, economic shocks, pandemics, and
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