Victoria Jamali

Victoria Jamali, in Persian: ویکتوریا جمالی, is an environmental rights activist and expert in environment law from Iran.

[1] Earlier in the 1990s, Jamali was approached by her colleague at the University of Tehran, Mahlagha Mallah, to establish an organisation dedicated women and the environment in Iran.

[4] By 2001 Jamali was Assistant Professor in the Graduate Faculty of Environment at the University of Tehran and was leading research in environmental law in Iran.

[4] In 2002 she founded Iran's first environmental law programme, which drew comparisons between her and the American environmentalist John Muir.

[5] As part of her work with WSAEP, Jamali edits the journal فرياد زمين (Faryad-e-Zamin - Cry of the Earth).