MartTropic Canada Inc. Founder and CEO

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Dr. Badran is a senior strategic Ecosystem-based Coastal Management and Blue Economy expert, Research Scientist and Projects Manager with over thirty years of leadership in coastal and marine environmental research, monitoring, and sustainable coastal management. His work bridges science, policy, and development to strengthen naturally healthy environment, climate resilience, and sustainable financing in coastal and marine ecosystems. He has designed, managed, and implemented numerous large-scale national, regional and international programs across the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and the European Mediterranean region, in collaboration with international organizations including UNDP, UNEP, IMO, World Bank, EU and UNIDO. His portfolio includes several flagship initiatives such as: 

# Marine Expert in the EU Team for establishing a Technical Assistance Program to the Green Economy in Jordan, namely Aqaba Amman Desalination and Conveyance “2025”.

# Established MarTropic Canada Inc. “2025”: https://martropic.com/  

# Consultant: Senior Technical Advisor at UNDP Jordan, namely on Effective Synergy Between Projects, Sustaining Projects’ Results and Stakeholders’ Engagement “2024”

# Coordinator of Mediterranean Forum for Applied Ecosystem-based Management MED4EBM Project, “UNDP/EU:ENI CBC MED, 2021 2023”

# Marine Expert in Strategic Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Studies “2018-2025”

# Director of Projects’ Management, Scientific Research and Monitoring “PERSGA, 2007-2017” 

# Lead developer and regional coordinator of PERSGA/GEF/WB Project “Strategic Ecosystem-based Management of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden “2012-2017”

# Regional coordinator of the GloBallast Partnerships Project “GEF/UNDP IMO, 2010-2014”

# Research Scientist at the Marine Science Station of the University of Jordan and Yarmouk University 1996-2007, with a tenure as a Director 2000-2004. 

# National coordinator of NATO supported regional project Societal Security and Environmental Impact of Marine Aquaculture in the Gulf of Aqaba “2006- 2009”

# Technical coordinator of the Red Sea Regional Program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research “1997-2003”

# Technical coordinator of the Gulf of Aqaba Environmental Action Plan “GEF/WB, 1997-2002” 

Dr. Badran led the initiative of establishing Jordan’s National Coastal Environment Monitoring Program in its three components seawater column physical-biogeochemistry, benthic habitats, namely coral reefs and fish assemblages, running since 2000, and contributed to establishing Aqaba Marine Park in its first draft “1997-2000” and in preparing its Development Plan in the recent draft “2022- 2024” encompassing Aqaba Marine Reserve, Aqaba Science Park and Marine Aquarium. 

He contributed to major Environmental and Socioeconomic Impact Assessment Studies for strategic investments including Aqaba Science Park and Marine Aquarium construction “2024”, Aqaba Amman Water Desalination and Conveyance “2021-2022” and the Private Sector endeavor of Artificial Crown Reef “2019”. He reviewed and updated the Workplan of the National Coastal Environment Monitoring Program through a consultancy with UNDP in 2018-2019. He also contributed to developing high-value funding proposals and blue economy programs, including the GFCR Gulf of Aqaba Resilient Reefs Program, EU-support to Aqaba Science Park Research and Development Program, and the Canadian “GAC” supported project Inclusive Coastal Ecosystem Biodiversity and Resilience on the Jordanian Coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. Most recently Dr. Badran had the role of the Marine Expert in the EU Team of consultants for establishing a Technical Assistance Program to the Green Economy in Jordan, particularly concerning Aqaba Amman Desalination and Conveyance, which will provide about 25% of Jordan’s fresh water need by the year 2030.