Jala Makhzoumi is an adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the American University of Beirut, president of the Lebanese Landscape Association, and co-founder of UNIT44 Consultancy, specializing in architecture, landscape architecture, and ecological planning. Her work emphasizes culturally responsive, ecologically sensitive, and community-driven solutions. Expertise spans ecological planning, landscape heritage conservation, post-conflict recovery, and sustainable urban greening. Jala contributes to various journal editorial boards and has co-authored "Ecological Landscape Design and Planning: the Mediterranean context" (Spon, 1999) and "The Right to Landscape, contesting landscape and human rights" (Ashgate, 2012). She pursued architecture studies in Baghdad, earned a Master's in Environmental Design from Yale University, and a PhD in landscape architecture from Sheffield University. In 2019, she was honored with the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2021, the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award for her significant contributions to education and practice.