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Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA)                     Advancing the Frontier of Maritime Knowledge CentrCentre for Coastal and Marine Environment (CMER)         

     
 

 
 

MOHD NIZAM BASIRON

  
 

Research Fellow
Center for Coastal and Marine Environment
Maritime Institute of Malaysia

  
     
 

Nizam is currently Research Fellow and head of the Centre for Coastal and Marine Environment at MIMA. He joined MIMA in December of 1993 as an Analyst after spending nearly three years as a Research Assistant and later Environmental Policy Analyst at the World Wide Fund for Nature Malaysia (WWFM).

Nizam was trained as an ecologist at the University of Canberra where he also studied environmental policy analysis. Instead of chasing elephants, something which he aspired to as a student, he now pursues policy-makers and administrators with ideas for policy changes and improvements.

He is currently a Member of the National Advisory Council on Marine Parks and Reserves of the Ministry of Agriculture; Council Member of the Malaysian Society of Marine Sciences, a non-governmental organisation; and is Vice-Chair of the Regional Task Force on Legal Matters for the UNEP-GEF Project on Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand.

In his spare time he reads history books and biographies and watch movies with his children.

  
     
   

   
         
   

   
         
   

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