Nassrine Azimi

Nassrine Azimi co-founded and currently coordinates the Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative (http:www.unitar.org/greenlegacyhiroshima), a global campaign to disseminate and plant worldwide seeds and saplings of trees that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. At the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Azimi established the Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific in 2003, and was its first director until 2009. Prior to her work in Hiroshima she had been UNITAR’s coordinator of environmental training programs, deputy to the executive director, and chief of the Institute’s New York Office, which she reopened in 1996 and directed for five years. She is currently a senior advisor at the Institute. Azimi has published extensively on UN peacekeeping and peace-building, post-conflict reconstruction, environmental and cultural governance, and Asia. Her latest book, published in July 2019 by Amsterdam University Press, is titled The United States and Cultural Heritage Protection in Japan (1945-1952)