• 1991                Ph.D. in Forest Products (Minor in Statistics), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon,USA

• 1984                M.Sc. in Forestry (Special field: Forest Utilization in Tropical Countries), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden,Germany

• 1981                Certificate in Logging and Log Transport, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

• 1979                B.Sc. (Honours) in Forestry, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Contributed to Sudan’s Greenhouse Gases Inventory, Sudan’s First Communication Report.

National Consultant, Sudan’s Greenhouse Gases Mitigation Study, Second National Communication Project; under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

A Lead author, Chapter III, IPCC report on Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

(I received a personalized certificate documenting my contribution to IPCC work (Nobel Peace Prize laureate together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; 2007).