Habib Nassar is a lawyer and human rights activist with over twenty years of experience in human rights and transitional justice at both regional and international levels. He has worked on issues including enforced disappearance, victim participation, and accountability across contexts in the Middle East and North Africa.

Until November 2025 Nassar worked on victim participation and family support activities at the United Nations Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP), a body established by the UN General Assembly to determine the fate and whereabouts of migrants, detainees and others who disappeared in the Syrian conflict and to support their families.

Before his role at the IIMP, he was Director of Policy and Research at Impunity Watch, where he conducted research and advocacy on justice, victims’ rights and transitional justice programmes in West Asia and North Africa.

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