Fadi Salem

Fadi Salem is the Director of the Governance and Innovation Program at the Dubai School of Government. His expertise and research focus areas include ICT’s transformational impact on governance and society as well as electronic government and development. His current research interests also include new media, information security, measurement and evaluation in the knowledge economy, and societal implications of online social networking services.

He is a graduate from the Department of Management in the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Faculty of Engineering in Aleppo University. He previously was a Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Prior to joining the Dubai School of Government he worked for four years in The Executive Office in Dubai and as the Technology Editor and the Managing Editor of two pan-Arab ICT publications.

He advises several governments in the Middle East and North Africa and is the author of numerous technical reports and articles in journals, print and new media. He publishes in Arabic and English and frequently contributes to media programs and international conferences.