SHARIF JAMIL
Buriganga Riverkeeper,
Coordinator, Waterkeepers Bangladesh,
Member Secretary, Dhoritri Rokhhay Amra (DHORA).
Other involvements:
Member, Board of Directors & Council Board Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA)
Executive Member, People’s SAARC Water Forum, Bangladesh (PSAARC WFB)
Member, South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR)
Executive Member, National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans (NCSS)
Executive Member, National River Saving Movement (JNRA) National Coordinator,
Save Indigenous Environment Movement (APRA)
Executive Director, Blue Planet Initiative (BPI)
Coordinator Waterkeepers Bangladesh
The Coordinator of Waterkeepers Bangladesh, Sharif Jamil, is an internationally recognized leader and activist in the global environmental and Human Rights movement. For more than two decades, he has been organizing civic action for environmental justice in Bangladesh through involvement in the country’s largest civil society platforms Dhoritri Rokhhay Amra (DHORA). Sharif Jamil has been working to save the country’s rivers, wetlands, forests, urban green spaces, and to protect the rights of indigenous groups whose livelihoods depend on environmental preservation in Bangladesh, along with demanding climate justice in the global discourse.
Sharif Jamil has consulted closely with the Waterkeeper Alliance since 2009 through attendance at the regional and global meetings and conferences as Buriganga Riverkeeper, a member of this international organization. He has been working with the Waterkeeper Alliance as an elected Regional Representative in the Waterkeeper Council since 2014. On 13 June 2019, he was declared as one of the 20 Waterkeeper Warriors in the world by the Waterkeeper Alliance on the eve of the 20th anniversary of this global platform. In June 2024, he was included as a member to the Board of Directors of Waterkeeper Alliance for the next three years.
Email Sharif: jamilenv@gmail.com