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The Font · Field

The other half of his life.

Water and wastewater treatment systems, environmental compliance, management plans, water-quality analysis, ecosystem advisory across the UAE and the GCC. The reef on weekends. The ledger on Mondays.

What he does, plainly

A job description that became a sermon.

Most days he is reading water — the kind that arrives at a treatment plant carrying everything a city forgot, and the kind that returns to it after the work is done. He writes environmental management plans. He signs off on compliance. He visits sites where the numbers and the smell rarely agree, and decides which one to trust. Across the UAE and the GCC the brief is the same: less harm, fewer assumptions, more written down.

The career trail

Current

AMROEnvironment Division Manager

Environmental solutions across the UAE and the GCC.

Former

Action International ServicesSenior Water Quality Analyst

Water and wastewater treatment systems.

Memberships and certifications

Member

Emirates Nature–WWF

The reef and the desert are not abstractions to a member. They are appointments.

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Certified

PADI Open Water Diver

PADI · No. 2602UD0947 · issued 2026-02-12

Trained at Al Jazeera Diving & Swimming Centre with instructor Ibrahim Al Dubai. Diving is a discipline of less.

Reef notes

  • Dibba · March

    The clownfish were exactly where last March left them. A small assurance.

  • Khasab · October

    A turtle, unbothered by the boat. We are the visitors. The reef is the host.

  • Fujairah · August

    Visibility low; current strong. You learn to read the water by what it refuses to show you.

  • Ras al-Khaimah lagoon · After the rains

    Wastewater testing in the morning, snorkel at dusk. Same water, different vocabulary.

Stewardship is not a metaphor for me. It is a job description. Then it became a sermon. Then it became a life.