User:Zaki Aslan

Zaki Aslan is the regional representative of ICCROM for the Arab States and founding director of the Sharjah-based ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre, UAE. He is conservation architect, who since 2003, has been Manager of ICCROM's ATHAR Programme (Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the Arab Region), Rome, Italy. Aslan provided technical advice to the Arab States on issues related to: heritage conservation, management and national planning/ policies; World Heritage procedures; implementation of field projects; and, education, public outreach, capacity building, and curricula development.

With more than 20 years of experience in the fields of Cultural Heritage Conservation and Planning (B.Sc. in Architecture, 1988), Aslan holds a Ph.D. in Heritage Conservation and Management from the University College London (UCL), U.K., and an MSc degree in Conservation of the Built Environment from the University of Montreal in Canada (1991).

He previously worked as consultant to UNESCO, EU, and ICCROM on projects in the fields of heritage conservation and management in the Arab countries (2000-2002), He worked as project manager in the mid-nineties, when he was engaged in the US-funded Cultural Resource Management Program in Jordan (CRM), and worked on the "Documentation and Conservation of Stone Monuments" in the World Heritage Site of Petra (after studying at the Bavarian State Conservation Office in Germany in 1994).

He is co-author of a UNESCO-ICCROM teacher's guide entitled "Introducing Young People to Heritage Site Management and Protection", and editor of ICCROM-ATHAR publications series. Aslan also has been honorary senior lecturer at University College London, and lectured at the American University of Sharjah in the fields of Heritage Conservation, and Islamic Art and Architecture. He is member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites", Maney Publishing, U.K.