Merham Keleg

Accountable Adaptation Fellow

Merham works as an Assistant Professor at the Urban Design and Planning Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. She was a PhD fellow at Oxford Brookes University for two years, as part of her PhD study looking into the potentials of placemaking and Green Infrastructure in Cairo, Egypt. Merham was also a research fellow at Technische Universitat Berlin for two months in 2023 aiming at developing the curriculum for the IUSD MSc course.

Merham has been serving as a trustee at Landscape Research Group (LRG) since November 2021 and currently holds the Research Coordinator position for LRG, coordinating the annual Research Funds. Merham’s research interests include placemaking, people-nature relationship, participatory climate action, landscape governance, livable public spaces, among others.