Dr. Azmath Jaleel is an academic researcher and a maritime consultant. His interests include maritime transport and marine management with focus on the welfare and human rights of people working at sea. He has a PhD. from Cardiff University in maritime transport policy, is a Class 1 Marine Engineer and a Chartered Marine Technologist. He has sea-going experience and has also served as a Director in the Maldives’ maritime administration. Dr Jaleel has provided consultancy services to a number of organisations including the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission and the Seafarers’ Rights International, UK, on maritime and marine environment related projects, made keynote presentations at several international conferences and has published academic papers and made contributions to books.
Academic/professional qualifications:
PhD Maritime transport policy – Cardiff University, UK
MSc Technical Management of Shipping – World Maritime University, Sweden
Class 1 Marine Engineer – DoT, UK
Marine Engineering Diploma – Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore
Current Engagements:
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Honorary Lecturer
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
The QS World University Rankings has placed Cardiff University as one of the world’s top universities with 36 of its subjects ranked in the top 200 globally in an influential league table
International Ocean Institute, Malta
Director
IOI Ocean Academy Maldives
Founded by Professor Elisabeth Mann Borgese (the primary architect of UNCLOS) in 1972, the International Ocean Institute (IOI) is a world leading independent, non-governmental non-profit organisation conducting training and capacity building in Ocean Governance with the aim of creating knowledgeable future leaders.
The mission of the IOI is to ensure the sustainability of the oceans as the “source of life”, and to uphold and expand the principle of the common heritage of mankind as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
