Mohammad Najjar is an archaeologist and has been Director of Excavations and Surveys at the Department of Antiquities of Jordan since 1988. He studied archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow from where he holds his Ph.D. He was affiliated to the Department of Antiquities of Jordan in 1982 as Curator of Jordan Archaeological Museum. He was the Technical Director of Cultural Resources Management (sites development) at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities between 1994 and 1997. Mohammad Najjar was the chairperson of the Friends of Archaeology of Jordan between 2003 and 2009 and the owner and the director of Jordan's Landscapes Tours. Since 2008 he has been an honorary board member of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and is the author of numerous publications on the archaeology of Jordan.