Since February, Naser Almarri has been general director of the Seed Center — MEWA; chairman of the Committee of Seed Producers in Saudi Arabia; and general-secretary of the National Committee on Plant Genetic Resources 2019.
Before that, he was deputy director general at the Natural Resources Department from June 2016 to September 2018.
Almarri is a specialist in seed production policies and strategies, seed and plant genetic resources laws, seed production, quality control, seed certification, field, horticultural crops varieties evaluation, seed testing, plant genetic resources collection, storage, evaluation, identification and maintenance.
He has experience and knowledge spanning more than 20 years in the application of agricultural and environmental strategies, programs and projects to achieve food security and sustainable development of areas with diverse ecosystems.
Almarri has been Saudi Arabia’s representative at the Gulf Cooperation Council since Sept. 2018. He is a member of the Kingdom’s team preparing the first report on biodiversity for food and agriculture.
Almarri is a member of the team for the national transformation program and the coordinator in the preparation of reports on the strategy and national plan of forests.
He is a member of the preparatory committee of the Saudi Environment Council.
Almarri has been a member of the National Committee for the preparation of sustainable development indicators from January 2015 till now.
He has published several articles in the Riyadh newspaper on the environment, biodiversity for sustainable development, and seed production.
Almarri obtained a master’s degree in 2002 from King Saud University with a specialization in agriculture science. He completed a Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Reading in England on the environment and seed physiology.
