Professor Allam Ahmed
Professor of Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development President World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) Senior Policy Fellow Global Policy Institute Honorary Professor Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Centre: Centre of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine
Email: allam.ahmed@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 7772851284
Website: www.allamahmed.org
Profile
Professor Ahmed is a Professor of Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development.
Awards & Positions held
Founding President of World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) (2003); Founding Director of SDGs Universities International Initiative (SDGsUNI) (2020) Founding Director of Middle Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute (MEKEI) (2012); Founder, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Transfer of Technology, the International Diaspora Initiative/Sudan Knowledge (SK) (2008);
Senior Policy Fellow Queen Mary University of London Global Policy Institute (QMGPI)
Fellow (FCIM) and Chartered Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK
Royal Agricultural University (RAU) Scholarship and Prestigious Book Prize for Best MSc/MBA Dissertation.
A Review of Learning Theories and Models Underpinning Technology-Enhanced Learning Artefact won an award for Outstanding Paper in the 2021 Emerald Literati Awards.
Background
Professor Ahmed completed his Ph.D. in Economics in two years at Edinburgh Napier University
Prior to QMGPI, he spent 15 years (2004-2019) at the University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) (1st science and policy think tank in the UK) where he established and led Sussex’s most successful postgraduate programme MSc International Management.
In the period 2009-2011, Professor Ahmed led the Government of Abu Dhabi in Knowledge Management Framework (Musharaka).
Has played an active leadership advisory role for several major public and private institutions.
Having worked in the field of international engagement and leadership in Higher Education Institutes for almost 25 years, Professor Ahmed is considered to be a transformative leader with a track record and repute in the UK and across the world particularly Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Strategic focus
Provide consistent and consolidated advice to the Commission services regarding the “Activities of International Cooperation” of the Capacities Specific Programme. Advise the Commission on strategy, relevant objectives and scientific and technological priorities, and the topics on which proposals are to be invited. Provide an overview and advice on international cooperation across the whole FP7 and work to enrich deliberations on “specific cooperation actions with third countries” of the Cooperation Programme. More specifically, among others advise on what the interactions should be between the Capacities programme and the themes in the Cooperation programme in terms of “Specific co-operation actions”. Provide suggestions regarding policy issues relevant to international cooperation in the Capacities programme. Provide a written input to the Commission on a yearly basis, to use in the preparation of the annual work programme