Saudi Green Building Forum - Volunteering to World of Change
Event Description
This talk examines how volunteers can change the future, and how volunteering is a key vehicle for achieving the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Through raising awareness and improving their own skills, volunteers can effect positive change in their community.
Hissah Alsaffar of Saudi Green Building Forum discusses the role of Saudi Green Building Forum in supporting volunteers. She also details the main challenges facing volunteers, and actions that can be taken to address them.
CES: Estimated 1 LU for AIA Members
Speaker
Hissah Alsaffar, saaf ®️ Professional, Writer, Speaker and Volunteer Leader, Saudi Green Building Forum
Moderator: Sherif W. Anis, FAIA, NCARB, RIBA, Executive Director & Past President, AIA Middle East; AIA International Council of Fellows representative
Hissah Alsaffar is an internationally accredited education instructor from the Kuwaiti Board for training programs and education consultant from New York Professional University, a graduate of King Faisal University. She is a writer for several newspapers and e-magazines, Member of Saudi Green Building Forum, leader of the UN Online Volunteering.
She is SGBF Representative to the ECOSOC Women and Environment Committee (2020-2022), General Assembly of the United Nations Environment Program February 2021 and SGBF/ G20 2021-2022 and participated as a member of C20 and Y20. Speaker at the HLPF 2021 side event organized by SGBF.
Moderator: Sherif Anis is an architectural generalist with 32 years’ diverse experience in the USA, UK and the GCC. Since 2007 Sherif has been actively involved in projects in both Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. With a keen focus on design and design management, Sherif has a proven track record of developing innovative, cost effective designs in architecture, interior design and urban planning. His high-profile project portfolio consists of large, mixed-use commercial/residential projects, corporate headquarters, hotels, university campuses and buildings, extensive multi-use developments, major educational projects and contemporary residences; all of which incorporate qualities that make projects successful, attractive, sustainable, and livable.
An award-winning and published designer, Sherif is a regular speaker, panelist and chairperson at regional conferences and for design award juries. He has been ranked #68 in the ‘Power 100 most influential people in the GCC’s construction industry. A founding member of the American Institute of Architects’ Middle East Board of Directors, Sherif is the chapter’s Executive Director and has served as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President and President and is a registered architect in the State of Massachusetts.
Sherif holds a Bachelor of Architecture from New York’s Syracuse University School of Architecture.
