Nassrine Azimi
Nassrine Azimi coordinates the UNITAR Afghan Fellowship Legacy Projects (AFLP). She is co-founder and coordinator of the Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative (GLH), a global campaign to disseminate and plant worldwide seeds and saplings of trees that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima) and chair of the EDEN (Emerging and Developing Economies Network) Seminars. At the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) where she is currently a senior advisor, Dr. Azimi...See more
Nassrine Azimi coordinates the UNITAR Afghan Fellowship Legacy Projects (AFLP). She is co-founder and coordinator of the Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative (GLH), a global campaign to disseminate and plant worldwide seeds and saplings of trees that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima) and chair of the EDEN (Emerging and Developing Economies Network) Seminars. At the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) where she is currently a senior advisor, Dr. Azimi established the Institute's Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific in 2003. Prior to that she was UNITAR's coordinator of environmental training programs, deputy to the executive director, chief of the Institute's New York Office, and for 12 years head of UNITAR's Board of Trustees' secretariat in Geneva, throughout the Institute's restructuring and revival.Currently a visiting professor at Hiroshima Shudo University and adjunct professor at Doshisha Women's College in Kyoto, Azimi was visiting scholar at New York's Columbia University (2003) and at the University of California in Los Angeles/UCLA (2016-2018), a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB-COOP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, and an advisory committee member for the Hiroshima Peace Media Center (HPMC) in Japan. She has a BA in political science from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, an MA in international relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, a second MA in urban studies from the School of Architecture, University of Geneva, and a doctorate in cultural studies from the Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University. Azimi has published extensively on UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, environmental and cultural governance, and Asia. She co-wrote the 'Last Boat to Yokohama' on the life and work of women's rights activist Beate Sirota Gordon in 2015, and her latest book, 'The United States and Cultural Heritage Protection in Japan (1945-1952)' was released by Amsterdam University Press in 2019. See less
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