Souad Naji Al-Azzawi (Arabic: سعاد ناجي العزاوي) is an Iraqi environmentalist & academic researcher in various engineering disciplines, in addition to having established and assisted in the establishment of multiple research & academic institutions in Iraq. She is the first Arab to receive the Nuclear-Free Future Award, with has more than 50 published scientific papers on topics ranging from water desalination, nuclear waste management, and Depleted Uranium contamination among others and is a distinguished member of the Iraqi scientific community. Education Al-Azzawi graduated with a B.Sc. in civil engineering from University of Mosul, Iraq (1971–1976). After spending 6 years practicing in various structural engineering and engineering management roles, she relocated to the United States of America to pursue an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, US (1983–1986) followed immediately by a Ph.D. in geological environmental engineering (1986–1989) with a dissertation titled: “An integrated approach to subsurface heterogeneity measurement for three dimensions ground water flow and contaminant transport modeling.” ushering in her career in hazardous and radioactive waste modeling and management. Career and academia Al-Azzawi studied geological and environmental engineering in the US, after which she returned to Iraq immediately before the Second Gulf War to be appointed as a faculty member in the civil engineering department, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, 1991–1996, during which she taught several undergraduate and graduate studies courses. She was appointed assistant dean of scientific affairs in the College of Engineering, University of Baghdad from 1995 to 1996. In 1996 she was appointed director of Reconstruction Researches Center, University of Baghdad, for 4 years. In 1997, she founded and then subsequently as appointed the acting head of the Environmental Engineering Department for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, during which she was also the director of the Environmental Consulting Office in the same university, and acting director of the doctorate program in Department Environmental Engineering which she was confirmed to by the year 2000. Her work in the Environmental Consulting Office included supervising projects and studies related to environmental engineering such as special geological environmental exploration programs and to site selection criteria, surface and ground water pollution problems and control, risk assessments related to environmental pollution, environmental impact statements, and water resources management. The bulk of the body of research published by Souad was performed within her designation as a faculty member in the College of