Abdullah Al Karam

Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, United Arab Emirates. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Qualifications Authority, and a member of the Supreme Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Emirate of Dubai, in addition to his work as a member of the Social Development Committee of the Government of Dubai, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation. “And the “Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences”, and the “United Arab Emirates University” Council. He assumed the position of Vice President and Secretary General of the Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Educational Performance, Chairman of the Dubai Government Human Resources Committee, and CEO of Knowledge Village in Dubai. He also headed the research unit in Dubai Internet City and worked before that. As a software engineer in the United States of America and France. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the “Knowledge Fund,” which was established to finance educational initiatives, and a member of the “World Economic Forum” and the “Council for the Global Agenda on Education” in 2010. He holds a doctorate in computer engineering from the University of South Carolina in the United States of America.