Dr. Wadid Erian has been a professor of soil science at Cairo University since 2001 and is currently a Senior Advisor for Sustainable Development at the League of Arab States. He has carried out a long list of applied research projects and studies in the areas of Sustainable Development, Drought, Land degradation and Land Use Planning in over 100 countries. He has also been a lead author of several United Nations reports on the subject, including the Regional report the Attainment of SDGs in Conflict-Affected Countries in the Arab Region.