Dr. Mohammed al-sharaa
nonresident fellow
Dr. Mohammed Jawad Al-Sharaa is a global security expert and practitioner who was born in Baghdad in 1957 and holds a PhD in Wave Propagation Engineering from Iraq’s University of Technology. Between 1983-1989, he worked as a scientific researcher with Iraq’s Scientific Research Council and then for the European Space Agency until 1991. After that Dr. Mohammed worked for the Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission until 2003 and from 2004-2017 Dr. Mohammed served as Director-General of Iraq’s National Monitoring Authority for Non-Proliferation. During that period, he was appointed as a governor on the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Board of Governors and served as Iraq’s Head of the National Authority to a number of key international/multilateral nonproliferation and security agreements including the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Biological Weapons Convention (BWTC), the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT),
implementing IAEA safeguards (2004-2017), and Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Dr. Mohammed during this time also worked as national coordinator for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) and Hague Code of conduct (HCOC), otherwise known as the International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation. In 2017, Dr. Mohammed transitioned from government service and has since worked as a highly sought out consultant in support of global security initiatives spanning technical, policy and framework, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) safety and security, border (air, sea, land) security, and nonproliferation/counterproliferation and counter-WMD issues.
In addition to the positions already listed, Dr. Mohammed has served on myriad other national and international security focused councils, committees, and working groups throughout his professional career including but not limited to, the National Security Deputy Ministers Council (2004-2017), the IAEA Nuclear Security Guidance Committee (2012-2017), the Iraqi Nuclear Energy Committee (2007-2016), the Wise Men Committee for the Arab league Secretary General, the International Technical Working Group (ITWG) since 2012, the Pugwash group since 2006, the Iraq-US WMD committee (2012), as Head of Iraq’s CBRN policy team (2012-2017), and as National Coordinator for the Global Initiative of Combating Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) (2015-2017). Dr. Mohammed has published multiple research papers and scientific reports in the fields of communication and non-proliferation.