Mr. Yarob Badr
Regional Advisor on Transport, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Mr. Yarob Badr earned his PhD in Transport science in 1991 from the French ENPC in Paris. After several years of experience in the academic and consultancy fields, Mr. Badr was appointed as Minister of Transport in Syria between 2006 and 2011. Under his mandate the number of traffic fatalities in Syria dropped by 24% between 2008 and 2010. Mr. Badr is currently the Regional Advisor on Transport and Logistics in ESCWA since September 2014. He is coordinating ESCWA activities to formulate a regional strategic vision for the development of future multimodal transport that would improve vital connectivity and regional integration between the Arab countries and the rest of the world.