Alaa Wahbeh

Alaa Wahbeh is Head of the Climate Change and Drought Monitoring Dept. at the National Center for Agricultural Research (NARC) in Jordan.  She has a MSc in Water Resources and environmental Management, working mainly in studying the effects of climate change on microenvironments and livelihood using remote sensing tools then promoting sound and effective adaptation measures for the Jordanian conditions that mainly farmers in the arid areas can depend on, she has many publications in the field, coordinating the national team for two ENI CBC MED projects that are mainly implemented to achieve better adaptation with climate change in the Mediterranean.  She is a member in the National Drought Committee and the National Committee for Climate change; all these activities are aligned with the mission of  NARC, her home institution