Abdul-Wadood Moomen

Position

Head of Department

School

Mines and Built Environment

Department

Sustainable Mineral Resources Development

Head – Department of Sustainable Mineral Resource Department, UENR.
Coordinator – Group on Earth Observation Land Degradation Neutrality (GEO-LDN), UENR.
Prestigious MSCA Fellow, EU Commission with Co-funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC);
Guest Scientist – Global Resources Information Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP-GRID); Geneva, Switzerland.
Invited Scientists – EnviroSPACE Lab, Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Postdoctoral Fellowship – School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland with funding from the EU Commission Horizon 2020, Co-Funded by the IRC.
PhD from the Western Australian School of Mines, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Honours in Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.
Certificate – Mineral Resource Exploration and Mine Management; European Institute of Technology Raw Materials Copernicus (EIT RawMatCop) Academy, University of Bologna (UniBo), Bologna, Italy.
Certificate – Project Appraisal and Contract Negotiation. Mining Project Development and Capacity Building for Critical Minerals. Deloitte, USA Department of State, Energy and Mineral Governance Programme (EMGP).
Certificate – Geoscience and Data Management: Harnessing Critical Minerals to Accelerate Economic Growth | Materials. Deloitte, USA Department of State EMGP.
Certificate – Gender and Mining Governance: Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF); International Institute for Sustainable Development, UN Development Programme (UNDP), Co-Funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
Certificate – Project Management 6N4090: DCM Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) Level 6 Certificate IV, Dublin, Ireland.
Certificate of Advanced Studies – Geomatics for Environmental Sustainability, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Member – Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) Geospatial discussion Group, UNEP
Africa Representative on Scientific Advisory Group – Policy development, implementation, and evaluation. The Minamata Convention on the use of Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) monitoring. Minamata Convention Secretariat, UNEP.
Member – Earth Observations for Managing Mineral and Non-Renewable Energy Resources. GEO-MiDO + EO4MIN Initiative; Group on Earth Observation (GEO), Geneva, Switzerland.
Resource Person: Training the geoscientific cadres of the Geological Surveys of Africa through the development of an innovative program. Pan-African Support to the EuroGeoSurveys – Organisation of Geological Surveys of Africa Partnership (PanAfGEO). Southern Africa Project.
Mining Sector Resource Person – Skills Gap Analysis and Audit in Twelve Economic Sectors in Ghana. Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Ministry of Education, Ghana.
Participant/Reviewer – Value Chain Roundtable with International Council on Minerals & Metals (ICMM); ENR Value chain Roundtable on Private Sector Outreach Handbook. Harnessing Critical Minerals to Accelerate Economic Growth | Materials
Resource Person – OECD Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains. Harnessing Earth Observation for Environmental Due Diligence. Sectoral Program on Raw Materials and Development of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany.
Convener – Annual Transformational Dialogue on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, School of Mines and Built Environment (SMBE), University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR).
Partnership Programme – Mining Project Development and Capacity Building for Critical Minerals. U.S. Department of State Bureau of Energy Resources . Energy and Mineral Governance Program; ENR Mineral Resources & Sustainable Exploration in Arctic Regions (MINEARC); Harnessing Critical Minerals to Accelerate Economic Growth | Materials. ENR – EMGP.
Research Interests – Sustainable Mining, Urban Mining, Development Minerals, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Mineral Resource Development, Mineral Exploration, Land Information, Environmental Resource Monitoring and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).