Ahmed Najm is an Iraq based editor and the managing director of Metrography Agency, the first and only photo agency in Iraq. Growing up during the civil war era, in the first seven years of his life, Najm and his family fled to Iran twice. He supervises photojournalists in various Iraqi communities and religions. He has also been training 15 women photojournalists, encouraging them to tell the stories that remain inaccessible to male photographers and is the organizer of the annual photo festival of Metrography which takes place in five cities in Iraq. Ahmed Najm was a jury member of the World Press Photo Award.