Maryam Al Balushi

Maryam Al Balushi

Senior Director of the Environmental Affairs Office at the General Authority of Civil Aviation.

Name in Arabic:
مريم البلوشي
Nationality: Emirati
Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates

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Senior Director of the Environmental Affairs Office at the General Civil Aviation Authority since September 2024, United Arab Emirates.

She is the Chair of the Aviation Environment Protection Committee at the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO, the Head of the State’s Climate Change Negotiation Team for the Civil Aviation Sector, a Managing Director for the Aviation Sector at the Emirates Council for Climate Change and Environment, and a weekly columnist for Al Khaleej newspaper.

She established the Environmental Department in Civil Aviation in the UAE in 2006, and also established the Environmental Department in both Dubai Airports in 2008, and the General Civil Aviation Authority in 2010. She was elected as the first Chairperson of the Environmental Committee in the Arab Civil Aviation Organization affiliated with the League of Arab States.

She represented the UAE as an official spokesperson at numerous local, regional, and international meetings. She served as Director of Environment at the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, where she worked as a legal legislator for hazardous materials and an environmental officer. She also served as an environmental officer at the Emirates General Petroleum Corporation, an administrative assistant and teaching assistant at Dubai Men’s College of the Higher Colleges of Technology, Director of the Environment Department at the General Civil Aviation Authority, and Vice-Chair of the Aviation Environmental Protection Committee at the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO.

She co-founded Dar Mulhimoon for Publishing and Distribution and the Emirates Association for Arabic Calligraphy and Islamic Decoration in 2014, and served as a member of the board of directors of the same association, and as a member of the board of the College of Engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

She has 6 publications: Let Me Tell You a Secret in 2020, Live with God in 2018, the I Didn’t Fail series in 2015 and 2017, Journey of Memory in 2016, and But I Can in 2003.

She received the Sayidaty Award for Creativity and Excellence in 2016, the Leadership in Aviation Award within the Middle East Business Leaders Awards from the American Leadership Development Association in 2015, the Leadership in Aviation Award from the Middle East Institute for Excellence in 2014, the Young Talent Award for 2015 within the launch ceremony of the Arab Woman Award 2015, and the “Excellence Award for Female Leadership in the field of aviation in 2014.

She was also selected as one of the Top 50 Arab Personalities in a survey by Sayidaty Magazine in 2014, and was chosen by the US State Department to represent the United Arab Emirates in the International Visiting Leaders Program.

She holds a Master of Science in Environmental Science from the United Arab Emirates University in 2009 and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the same university in 2002.

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