Amadou Tahirou Diaw is a professor specializing in coastal geomorphology, environmental studies, remote sensing, and geographic information systems (GIS), with 40 years of experience. He is affiliated with Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD, Senegal), where he led the Geomatics and Research Laboratory (LERG) after completing his PhD thesis (1980) and his D.Litt. thesis (1997) at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University (France). He has held a position on the Board of Directors of Wetlands International (Wageningen, the Netherlands) and served internationally as a research fellow and adjunct professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, France) and at Michigan State University (East Lansing, USA). He has contributed to satellite missions and international initiatives (SPOT and MOMS) and to ECOWAS initiatives on Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure. He has also supervised theses, publications, and projects on coastal environments and climate change. He also contributes as a reviewer for several African and international journals, including Ocean and Coastal Management, Environmental Challenges, and Global Ecology and Conservation.