Alumni Profiles


Dr Saood Qaseem

Organization Information

Since 1992, IMO has been acting as a reliable, international inspection and certification organization for textiles. Our certificates stand for the greatest ecological quality.

The International Association Natural Textile Industry (IVN) has entrusted IMO and the testing lab eco-Umweltinstitut exclusively with quality assurance. Furthermore, IMO is entitled to perform ecological quality assurance on basis of the standards of the Organic Trade Association (OTA), Demeter International, on behalf of the Soil Association and others.

Recently IMO was significantly involved in developing the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and has been officially approved as the first certification body at all to offer certification according to this world-wide accepted standard for ecological textiles.

Our many years of experience in ecological and social quality assurance in textile production are also available for your company's special criteria.

Describe the work that you do in your role

Responsibilities include conducting audits for Organic and Fair-Trade Certifications in the textile industry of Pakistan and abroad. I am also responsible for coordination of all company activities between Pakistan and Switzerland office.

Indicate previous experience and/or areas of career proficiency/achievenments

Worked as a Research Associate with FTIR Spectroscopy and Microscopy to find out the effectiveness of a dry cleaning process on nano-scale level. This study was conducted in collaboration with Happy & Co. Ltd., Japan and Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Describe your success in your professional life and achievements

Write your activities and achievement if you were member of any club or society in UMT?

What do you remember about your time in ILM / IMT /UMT?

A time that made me independent