Dr. Lejla (Leila) Vrazalic is a higher education consultant based at the Dubai Knowledge Park in the UAE. She works with several regulatory agencies, including the Oman Academic Accreditation Agency (OAAA) and the UAE’s Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) as a review director and assessor. Prior to her current role, Dr Vrazalic was the Campus Programme Co-ordinator for Business and IT programmes at Middlesex University in Dubai (2008-2014). She also held the position of Chair of the College of Business at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (2004-2008). Dr Vrazalic has more than twenty years of experience in the higher education sector, having held various lecturing and management positions, and taught in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the UAE. In 2006, Dr Vrazalic was awarded a Citation for educational leadership by the Australian Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Dr Vrazalic has chaired and presented at a number of educational conferences and workshops in the areas of teaching and learning. In 2004, she was awarded the Australian Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Business Community Partnerships. The same year, Dr. Vrazalic was recognised with the overall Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning at the University of Wollongong in Australia. In addition to her roles in quality assurance, educational development and leadership, Dr Vrazalic was an international assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC), and in 2016 she was appointed as a reviewer to the UK’s QAA International Quality Review.

 Dr. Theofanis is a Principal Lecturer, School of Heath Sciences, University of Brighton (2012 to Present).  He is also an Associate Lecturer, Open University UK (2013 to Present).  He is a Visiting Lecturer, School of Nursing, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (2015 to Present).  He has served as an external examiner in several universities: - 2015- 2018. MSc Leadership & Management. School of Nursing and Midwifery/ University of Dundee. - 2015- 2019. MSc Health Sciences (Management) the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences/ Northumbria University.  He has served as an external reviewer in several associations: - Reviewer INNOVATE UK. - Reviewer National Institute Health Research (NIHR). - Reviewer Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). - 2016- Accreditation Consultant, National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA), Saudi Arabia. - Accreditation Consultant, Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) United Arab Emirates. - Member of the Standing Review Board, Humanities and Social Science Panel, Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong. - 2021- The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) UK. - Reviewer National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Dissemination centre. - Rater for the McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE), McMaster University (CANADA).  He has several Consultancy/ Committee Memberships: - Association for Perioperative Practice (UK) Associate Consultant on infection control. - Member HIMSS Cybersecurity, Privacy and Security Committee.  He is involved in several Journal Editorial/Reviewer Activities: - Editor in Chief: BJARN British Journal of Anesthetic and Recovery Nursing. - Editor: Brighton Journal of Research in Health Sciences (JRHSc), e-Journal published by the School of Health Sciences/ University of Brighton. - Editorial Board member, Journal of Vascular Nursing (USA).  He has published a variety of Research papers such as: - Kioskli, K., Fotis, T. & Mouratidis, H., (2021) The landscape of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and challenges in healthcare: Security standards and paradigm shift recommendations, 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, 3470033. - Bhattacharjee, S., Galvin, K. T., Fotis, T. & Uhrenfeldt, L., (2021) INNOVATEDIGNITY: Co-designing Digital Health Technologies with Older People in Homecare Settings. In: Clinicaltrials.gov. NCT04884711.

Education ❑ Ph.D. Signal Analysis of blood flow in the skin, Department of Control Engineering, University of Bradford, UK, 1987. ❑M.Sc. Microprocessor Engineering, University of Bradford, UK, 1983. ❑Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Leeds, UK, 1982. ❑B.Sc. (Honours) Electronic Engineering, The City University, London, UK, 1981. Experience ❑ 2018 – Present: Director of Quality & Excellence Centre – Arabian Gulf University – Kingdom of Bahrain ❑ 2014 – 2018: Academic Consultant – Education and Training Quality Authority – Kingdom of Bahrain ❑ University of Bahrain: ➢ 2010 – 2014: Director, Business Incubator Centre ➢ 2006 – 2010: Chairman, Department of Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology ➢ 2004 – 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering ➢ 1987 – 2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering ❑ 2000 – 2004: Subject Coordinator - Monash University International, Melbourne, Australia

Ahmed Guessoum is a professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, with a specific interest for Machine learning and Natural language Processing. He holds an Ingéniorat (5-year undergraduate degree) from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB, Algiers, Algeria), an MSc from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol (UK). He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the European ESPRIT Pragmatics Language Understanding System project at the University of Bristol, as a guest researcher at the University of Trondheim in Norway, and as an assistant/associate/full professor at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), the University of Sharjah (UAE) and USTHB (Algeria). He is now a faculty member of the National Higher Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Algiers. Professor Guessoum has published tens of scientific research papers in AI, Machine Learning, NLP, and Arabic NLP. He has supervised tens of students either for their PhD or MSc theses as well as on their final year BSc graduation projects. Most of these have been on AI-related problems such as human-machine dialogue systems, machine translation, sentiment analysis, recommendation systems, image processing for disease detection, gene-gene interaction and drug repurposing, oil well digging, etc. Professor Guessoum has received various distinctions and awards including scholarships from the Algerian government to pursue Master’s and PhD studies, the University of Sharjah College of Arts and Sciences “Distinguished Teacher Award” (May 2007), the 2005 “University of Sharjah Distinguished Teacher Award” (Conferred by the Ruler of Sharjah during the university Graduation Ceremony), the University of Southern California “Certificate of Outstanding Academic Achievement” (after the MSc studies), the 2003 Bank of Sharjah Award for best undergraduate graduation project (supervisor: "A Web-Based Early Warning System for Anti-Microbial Resistance"), in addition to some best or second best paper awards at international conferences received for papers with MSc and PhD students he supervised. Prof. Guessoum served as the Director of the USTHB “Centre for Systems and Networks of Information and Communication, Televised Teaching and Distance Learning”, with the duty of full digitisation of the university. At USTHB, he chaired a university committee that developed the university 5-year strategic plan in ICT for the period 2015–2019; in the Spring of 2017, he chaired the USTHB committee in charge of Quality Assurance university selfevaluation, required by the Ministry of Higher Education. From 2013 to 2016, he was the Director of the PhD Programme of the Computer Science Department at USTHB. He has also chaired or been a member of various committees in charge of education and research matters, and a member of the national IT standing committee of the Algerian Ministry of Post and ICT. He is now and then invited as a reviewer of institutional and Computer Science programmes by the Quality Assurance Authority (Higher Education) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Most recently, Ahmed Guessoum has been designated by the National Directorate for Scientific Research and Technological Development (DGRSDT) as the Principal Scientific Coordinator in the organisation of the Workshop on the National Strategic Plan on Artificial Intelligence held in Constantine 1-2/12/2019, the main role being to advise and help in the preparation of the scientific content of the workshop (160 Algerian AI experts) that aimed at developing an Algerian national strategy in AI for 2020–2030, for which he was the chief editor. Prof. Guessoum was also selected by the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Research to represent Algeria as an Artificial Intelligence Expert at the 17th Meeting of the Arab ministers of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the theme of the meeting being “Artificial Intelligence”, Cairo, 23–25/12/2019. He represented Algeria as an expert in artificial intelligence at the two UNESCO Intergovernmental Meetings of Experts on the Recommendations on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (26– 30/04/2021 and 21-25/06/2021). He was appointed in April 2020 by the Algerian Minister of Higher Education as the Chairman of the national AI project and the chair of the task force in charge of designing the programmes and planning for the launch of the National Higher School of Artificial Intelligence. After almost two years of hard work, the school, for which he was the interim director, started in October 2021 and accepted some of the very best Baccalaureate holders in Algeria. Prof. Guessoum has given various general lectures on topics related to the place of science in society, scientific research priorities, the brain drain, challenges facing the youth, Artificial Intelligence, Arabic in the ICT Era, Quality Assurance, etc. He has also been a guest in Algeria on numerous TV and Radio programmes dealing with topics related to science and the academic world. In recognition of all his contributions, Prof. Ahmed Guessoum was selected in March 2022 by MIT Technology Review Arabia as one of the 30 most eminent AI experts in the Arab World.

Dr. Amal Alrayes is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Systems at the University of Bahrain. Amal received her master degree in Computer Science from University of Wolverhampton in UK in 2004 and completed her Ph.D in Interactive Systems from University of Manchester in UK since 2013. In 2007, Amal was amongst the first batch of graduates of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) Program offered by the University of York St. John UK and consequently became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK. Amal got a senior fellow of HEA in 2017 for her significant contribution in inspiring the academic staff in adopting the new teaching and learning practices. She Joined the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Program as a mentor in 2013. In 2018, she was appointed as a lecturer in CPD program. And in 2019, she also appointed as a coordinator in NTB program. She has many contributions in disseminating the most recent educational practices to her colleagues through UTEL since its establishment in 2016 and before that. She has a strong engagement with industry through developmental research and grant projects such as project of Bahrain Satisfaction Index for e-government Services.

Education ❑ Ph.D. in Computer Science June 2004, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada - Field: Probabilistic analysis of algorithms and data structures ❑ One Year in Computer Science M.S. Program May 1998, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA ❑ M.S. in Mathematics August 1997, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Field: Harmonic (Fourier) Analysis ❑ B.Sc. in Mathematics February 1994, University of Bahrain, Isa Town, Bahrain Experience ❑ Jan 2018 – Current: Visiting Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, USA ❑ Oct. 2015 – Dec. 2017: President Assistant for University Compliance, Ahlia University, Bahrain ❑ Sept. 2012 – Dec. 2017: Chairperson of GW-Ahlia M.Sc. in Eng. Management Program, Ahlia University, Bahrain ❑ Sept. 2012 – Jan. 2014: Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Ahlia University, Bahrain ❑ Sept. 2008 – Feb. 2011: Chairperson of Department of IT, College of IT, Ahlia University, Bahrain ❑ Feb. 2008 – May 2015: Assistant Professor - Department of IT, College of IT, Ahlia University, Bahrain ❑ Sept. 2005 – Aug. 2008: Assistant Professor - Department of Information & Computer Sciences, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia ❑ Sept. 2004 – Aug. 2005: Assistant Professor - Department of Information Technology, Ahlia University, Bahrain

Dr.Hosam Osama Shaaban holds a PhD degree in private international law from the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University in 2008, he has held several academic positions in Bahraini universities, starting with a lecturer and then an assistant professor until he reached the rank of associate professor, he also held many of administrative positions such as Vice President for Administrative affaires in Kingdom University, Associate Dean of College of Law at the Gulf University, Head of Private law Department in the College of Law at Kingdom University, he has a number of research contributions in the field of private international law, including the book (Al-Wajeez of Bahraini Private International Law), and participated in writing the Part of Kingdom of Bahrain in a book published by Oxford University Press which titled (Choice of law in the international contracts, Global perspectives on the Hague principles), he also actively participated in a number of quality assurance review of academic programs and educational institutions.

Dr. Khaled Alomari is the Director of Quality Assurance and Academic Accreditation at the College of Nursing of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). He is also the Head of Adult and Critical Care Department and an assistant professor at West Coast University, USA. Dr. Alomari received his BSc in Nursing from Jordan; MSc and Ph.D. from the US. Dr. Alomari is a certified program evaluator with the American Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). He has led accreditation initiatives in the US and Oman. Under his leadership, several nursing programs has been accredited include the BSN and MSN programs have been accredited including the nursing program of Azusa Pacific University in California and the Nursing programs of Sultan Qaboos University. Dr. Alomari has served as a program reviewer for several nursing program across the globe including nursing programs in the United States, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Palestine

Dr. Al Fandi got his PhD in Computer Science, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany. He is currently the Assistant Dean at College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi campus, UAE. Dr. Al Fandi is certified as Professional Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany. He is also certified in Structured Cabling Installation and Maintenance by Lucent Technologies in Dubai. He Received Zayed University Vice President Grant upon conducting Smart Phone Application for indoor positioning/navigation. Dr. Al Fandi conducted several projects one of them was conducted in collaboration with Canada and Germany on ‘Characterizing Cyber-threat infrastructure for predicting Cyber-attacks in the UAE.’ He taught several courses related to Networks and Mobile Communication. Dr. Al Fandi published many papers and participated in several international conferences.

Dr. Tahseen Arshi is an Academic, Researcher, Administrator and Inventor. Dr. Tahseen works as Associate Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at American University of Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE. He has received his doctorate from the University of Bedfordshire, UK and MBA from University of Wollongong, Australia. He also credited with M.Phil. MA, MA (in education) degrees from premier Universities. Dr. Tahseen is a Certified Entrepreneurship Educator, awarded by Ministry of Higher Education, Oman. Dr. Tahseen specializes in designing technology enhanced curriculum. He has authored several publications in premium journals and case studies, published in the bestselling entrepreneurship textbooks in the UK, published by Palgrave McMillan. Dr. Tahseen has invented an AI-based SECURE (patented) system to assist entrepreneurs and start-ups. Dr. Tahseen has published more than 25 research articles (several Scopus-Q1 publications). He is a quantitative researcher specializing in structural equation modeling machine learning. Dr. Tahseen is an external Reviewer with Oman Academic Reviewer with Oman Academic Accreditation Authority (OAAA) and National Centre for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation (NCAAA) Saudi Arabia.

Zakaria Maamar is a Professor at the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. His research interests include service computing, social computing, and business process management. Zakaria has extensively published in different peer reviewed journals (e.g. IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Service Computing) and conferences (e.g. CAiSE and ICSOC), regularly serves on the program and organizing committees of several international conferences and workshops, and last but not least serves on the editorial boards of many international journals such as Service-Oriented Computing Applications journal published by springer. He is the recipient of an IBM Faculty Award in 2009. Zakaria has a PhD in Computer Science from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.

Born in 1951, Dr. Ahmed Gamal El Din Moussa is a professor of economics and public finance at the Faculty of Law, Mansoura University. He has held many academic and political positions. In 1972, he obtained a bachelor''''s degree in law from the University of Cairo with a "very good" grade. Due to his high ranking he was appointed as a member of the Egyptian State Council. Posterior to his Master degree in Public Law and Administrative Sciences (obtained in 1976) he preferred an offer from the newly established Faculty of Law, Mansoura University (1977). In the same year the University sent him to France, where in February 1984 he received the state doctorate (Doctorat d''''Etat) in law with a "very honorable" degree. His Thesis on "State and Social Inequality in Third World Countries - The Egyptian Case" was chosen as the best thesis and was nominated for the award of print offered by the French Ministry of Education. In 2003, he was a participant in the IEM (Institute of Education Management) course at Harvard University (USA) for presidents of American and foreign universities. After his return from France, he gradually stepped up university posts as an assistant professor (1984), associate professor (1989) and full professor (1995), then head of the Department of Economics and Public Finance (1995), Vice Dean for Education and Students Affairs (1996) and Vice President of Mansoura University for Education and Students Affairs (2001). In July 2003, he became the President of Mansoura University. One year later, he was appointed as Minister of education for the first time (first cabinet of Dr. Ahmed Nazif). He returned in February 2011 to take over the ministries of higher education and education (second cabinet of the General Dr. Ahmed Shafiq). In March of that year, he preferred to dedicate himself to the education portfolio (Dr. Essam Sharaf first and second cabinets). In the meantime, he also chaired the Legal Studies Sector Committee of the Supreme Council of Universities for more than ten years (February 2008 - November 2018). Also, he chaired the Standing Scientific Committee for the Promotion of Professors and Associate Professors for Economics and public finance discipline (2013-2016). In terms of professional and practical experiences, he is the principal partner in the "Arabian Law firm", and he is a local and international legal arbitrator. He has previously been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Postal Authority and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Post Firm for Systems. He was a member of the Supreme Court of Values, and was for more than 12 years a member of the Council of Private Universities. In terms of published academic production, it is about twenty articles, most of which fall within the framework of the public economy and public finance. One of these researches has received the Mansoura University Encouragement Award (1989). Another one obtained the State Encouragement Award in Economic and Financial Sciences (1991). Third research obtained the National Prize of the Academy of Scientific Research for Environmental Studies (1992). Finally he receipt of the State Award in Social Sciences (2007). Professor Moussa has published more than fifteen books in the fields of economy, politics and public finance. He has published dozens of articles in Al-Ahram, Al-Masry Al-Yawm, and Al-Akhbar newspapers and Al-Arabi magazine (Kuwait). In addition to the above, he published three novels in 2013 and 2014 and 2019.

• يشغل الأستاذ الدكتور عادل المسدي منصب وكيل كلية الحقوق ببني سويف لشئون التعليم والطلاب منذ 2018 وحتى الآن. • حصل الدكتور المسدي على درجة أستاذ في القانون الدولي العام عام 2011، وشغل منصب رئيس قسم القانون الدولي العام بجامعة بني سويف عام 2015، كما شغل منصب عميد كلية الحقوق بجامعة الفيوم عام2017. • عمل الدكتور المسدي بكلية القانون في جامعة السلطان قابوس في الفترة من 2005 وحتى 2015، خلال هذه الفترة ساهم كعضو بلجان الجودة المختلفة بالكلية منها اللجنة المشكلة لوضع الخطة الدراسية، ولجنة الخطط والبرامج، ولجنة التوظيف. كما شارك كعضو في اللجنة الفنية المشكلة لتقييم لائحة البكالوريوس في القانون بالجامعة العربية المفتوحة – مسقط - سلطنة عمان. كما حصل على جائزة الباحث المتميز من جامعة السلطان قابوس عام 2014. • الدكتور المسدي عضو في اللجنة العلمية الدائمة للترقيات بالمجلس الأعلى للجامعات – الدورة الحالية 2019/2022 وعضو الجمعية المصرية للقانون الدولي، والجمعية المصرية للاقتصاد السياسي والإحصاء والتشريع. كما أنه عضو في لجان تحكيم العديد من المجلات العلمية منها مجلة الأمن والقانون التي تصدرها أكاديمية شرطة دبي – الامارات العربية المتحدة، ومجلة جامعة الشارقة للعلوم القانونية. • للأستاذ الدكتور المسدي العديد من المؤلفات العلمية في مجال القانون الدولي العام.

1- General Secretary of the International University for African Development (Senghor University of Alexandria), from June 16, 2002 to July 31, 2003. 2- Head of Department of Commercial and Maritime Law, Faculty of Law, University of Alexandria, starting from October 22, 2002 to August 31, 2005, and from February 29, 2013 to September 9, 2015. 3- Executive Director of the Unit for Legal Studies in Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Law, University of Alexandria, starting from October 9, 2003 to August 31, 2005 and from December 29, 2012 to July 31, 2014. 4- Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Beirut Arab University, starting from September 1, 2005 to August 31, 2009. 5- Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Sultan Qaboos University, starting from September 4, 2009 to July 3, 2012. 6- Dean of the College of Law of the University of Modern Sciences in Dubai, starting from September 10, 2015 to May 31, 2016. 7- Dean of the College of Law of Abu Dhabi University, starting from June 16, 2016.

Prof. Jonathan P. Bowen, FBCS, FRSA, is Emeritus Professor of Computing at London South Bank University, Adjunct Professor at Southwest University (Chongqing, China), and Chair of Museophile Limited, an IT and museum consultancy company that he founded in 2002. He has been a visiting professor/researcher at a variety of institutions including East China Normal University (Shanghai), the Pratt Institute (New York), King''''s College London, the United Nations University (Macau), and Waikato University (New Zealand). Previously he has held academic/research posts at Birmingham City University, University of Reading, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, and Imperial College London. His research interests range from computer science, especially software engineering, through to the history of computing and museum informatics. He has also undertaken numerous accreditation and other academic visits in Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and especially the UAE. Bowen originally studied Engineering Science at Oxford University. He is a Life Fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and a Freeman of the City of London. In 2017 he co-authored The Turing Guide on the computing pioneer Alan Turing and in 2019 he co-edited Museums and Digital Culture. As of 2020, he has an h-index of 49 on Google Scholar. For more information, see: www.jpbowen.com

Dr. Wael Allam is a professor of public international law at the College of Law, University of Sharjah. He has also worked as a professor at Benha University in Egypt, a visiting professor at Georgetown University and Columbia University in the United States of America, London School of Economics and Political Science in Britain, and UNESCO in France, and an expert at the League of Arab States in Cairo. He was the Vice-Dean of Benha Faculty of Law and Assistant Dean of Sharjah College of Law and Chairman of the Academic Accreditation Committee.