Sharif Jamil is a distinguished environmental and human rights leader from Bangladesh, recognized nationally and internationally for his influential leadership in river conservation, water protection, and environmental justice. He serves as Buriganga Riverkeeper and Coordinator of Waterkeepers Bangladesh, and is a Member of the Board of Directors and Council Board of Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA), the world’s largest nonprofit network dedicated to protecting the right to clean water.
He is also Member Secretary of Dhoritri Rokhhay Amra (DHORA), one of Bangladesh’s leading environmental civil society platforms, and Executive Director of Blue Planet Initiative (BPI). Through these leadership roles, he brings together public advocacy, community action, and policy engagement to confront water pollution, river encroachment and erosion, and other critical threats to Bangladesh’s rivers and ecosystems, while championing the rights of communities most affected by environmental degradation.
A respected voice in the national and global environmental movement, Sharif Jamil continues to advance bold and sustained action for clean and living rivers, water security, ecosystem protection, and environmental justice.