Introduction
Dr Alaa Garad
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Al Maktoum College of Higher Education, Scotland
Dr Alaa Garad, FRSA, PhD, is a renowned Quality Management and Organisational Learning expert with over 30 years of experience in consultancy, executive education, and business development. As the creator of the Learning-Driven Organisation Model, he has contributed to five books and authored over 470 articles. Additionally, he is a regular columnist for a leading newspaper. In higher education, Dr. Garad has played pivotal leadership roles at institutions in the Middle East, including UOWD.
Expert
Alaa is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Certified Management and Business Educator from the Chartered Association of Business Schools, UK.He is an Associate Professor of Strategic Quality Management at the University of Portsmouth, the UK, and ISO Technical Committee TC260. Alaa successfully creates, implements, and refines long-term strategies, focused on collaborative partnerships, performance management, futures foresight, and investing in people.
Fields of expertise: Communication and information/ICTs, e-Transformation / e-Governance, Education, Social change / social transformations, Social innovation / public sector innovation / policy innovation, Strategic planning