About me
Dr. Zeina ElZein is UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board member from Egypt and an Assistant Professor of Architecture, specialized in Integrated Urban Water Management, and the Water, Energy and Food Nexus at Helwan University. She is an established Editor and Consultant, who served as jury and reviewer to international funds, conferences and journals. She is currently assigned as UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board.
Zeina is a previous visiting researcher at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Fulbright Alumna at the University of Texas in Austin. She was awarded the Volkswagen Foundation Award and the 10th IALE World Congress Award. She led sustainable development projects. She has also consulted on water management and community urban greening projects.
She participated in establishing a new undergraduate program: Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design, at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University. The program includes interdisciplinary courses to equip architects with the knowledge and experience to address global challenges and sustainable development goals in cities. She, along with her team, was awarded the best integrated sustainable development scheme for an off-grid community in Matrouh, Egypt. She developed, along with her team, at the American University in Cairo, a user friendly urban agriculture prototype that can be used indoors or outdoors for healthy food production with minimum water resources.
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