Affiliation: Director of the Scientific Research and Publishing Department at Al-Manara University, Latakia, Syria, and President of the Syrian Society for Aquatic Environment protection

Prof. Adib Ali Saad is the founder and director of the Marine Sciences and Aquatic Environment Laboratory at Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria (1993-2020). Both MSc and Ph.D. degrees (Doctorat d’État Sciences) in Biological sciences from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (la Sorbonne 6) 1988, Paris, France. He’s obtained his 1st level diploma in Scuba diving. He’s the President of Syrian society for Aquatic environment protection (SSAEP) (NGO) and the President of National Commission for Οceanography since 2010.

Also, he’s a member of Editorial Boards of many scientific journal National and Internationals.

He worked as an associate researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Paris during the period 1986-1988. He’s an expert in the field of fish biology and fish stock assessment in the United Arab Emirates. He’s the Head of the Department of Basic sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture Tishreen University. 

He’s the General Director of General Establishment of Fisheries (GEF) in Syria and the Director of Scientific research and postgraduate studies at Tishreen University. He was also the Dean of High Institute of environmental research of Tishreen University from September 2015 until September 2016.

During 2023, he has participated in the Important Sharks and Rays Areas (ISRA) project to ensure that sharks, rays and chimaeras are taken into account in area-based management initiatives around the world. It is a member of the IUCN Mediterranean Shark Group

He supervised 35 master’s theses and 14 PhD theses, in the field of ichthyology, marine biology, marine and river biodiversity, and cartilaginous fish in Syrian marine waters. He has authored many academic and popular books: including the Atlas of Sharks, Rays, and Chimeras in Syria in 2022 (in Arabic with a summary in English and French). A copy of it is available on the Research Gate website, Atlas of toxic and Harmful Marine Fishes in Syrian Marine Waters (2021). Atlas of marine fish of commercial importance in Syria in 1998, a chapter in a book about marine mammals in Syria, and periodic annual reports about marine turtles in Syria published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He currently holds the position of Director of the Scientific Research and Publishing Department at Al-Manara University, Latakia, Syria, and President of the Syrian Society for Aquatic Environment protection.