Dr. Recep Şentürk is the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies at HBKU. He was the former Founding President of Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul (2017–2021). Dr. Şentürk holds a PhD from Columbia University’s Department of Sociology, and specializes in Civilization Studies, Sociology, and Islamic Studies with a focus on social networks, human rights, and modernization in the Muslim world. 

He served as a researcher at the Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) in Istanbul, and as Founding Director of the Alliance of Civilizations Institute. He is Head of the International Ibn Khaldun Society, and has a seat on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals. He is listed among the world’s 500 most influential Muslims in the annual publication The Muslim 500. 

Dr. Şentürk has publications in English, Turkish, and Arabic. His works have been translated into such languages as French, Japanese, Malayalam, Urdu, and Spanish. His publications include Adamiyyah: I Am Therefore I Have Rights and Duties, Semiotics of Nature; Recharging Nature with Meaning for Environmental Ethics and Action, Futuwwah: Noble Character, Malcolm X: The Struggle For Human Rights, Comparative Theories and Methods between Uniplexity and Multiplexity, Narrative Social Structure: Hadith Transmission Network 610-1505,and Modernization and Societal Sciences in the Muslim World. 

Dr. Christos Anagnostopoulos is an Assistant Professor in Sport Management at the College of Science and Engineering, where he teaches the MSc in Sport and Entertainment Management program, a joint program with the University of South Carolina (USA). Prior to this, he was the Deputy Head of the School of Business and Management at UCLan Cyprus and an Associate Professor in Sport Management at Molde University College, Norway. 

He is an editorial board member in nine international scientific journals related to sport management, and he has more than 120 scientific publications (books, articles, international conferences). Since 2017, he has secured more than three million euros from leading and/or participating in seven European research projects dealing with sport governance, social responsibility and entrepreneurship in sport. In 2018, he was commissioned by the highest authority of sport in the Republic of Cyprus to write the first ever Code of Good Governance for the national sport federations, while in 2021 he was appointed as the sole consultant for the development of a multi-criteria evaluation scheme that assesses the performance of the national sport federations. He recently established the UNESCO Chair on Governance and Social Responsibility in Sport at UCLan Cyprus where he serves as the Director and one of the two co-chair holders.

Dr. Baldacci is an Associate Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Imperial College London. Before joining HBKU, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy (2005–2022), an Assistant Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2001–2005), and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London (2000–2001).

His research focuses on exact and heuristic algorithms for combinatorial optimization, particularly in transportation and logistics. His work includes dynamic programming, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut, column generation, and metaheuristics. He has also conducted literature surveys on routing problems and is exploring stochastic and distributionally robust optimization.

Dr. Baldacci has over 25 years of teaching experience and has supervised numerous students at all levels. He serves on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Transportation Science. He has published over 90 papers in top journals, including about 30 papers in Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, and Operations Research.

Dr. Khalid is a highly accomplished individual with an impressive educational background. He earned his L.L.B degree from Durham University, L.L.M from Georgetown University, L.R from Harvard University and an E.M degree from HEC Paris. His pursuit of academic excellence culminated in the completion of an SJD from the University of Virginia.

In practice, Dr. Khalid is a corporate and commercial lawyer with extensive experience in the legal industry. He has spent the past 20 years working in some of the most prestigious entities in Qatar, providing expert legal advice and representation to a diverse range of clients. Throughout his career, Khalid has established himself as a highly skilled and knowledgeable legal professional, with a deep understanding of the complex legal issues that arise in the corporate and commercial sector. He is renowned for his analytical prowess, his ability to provide creative solutions to legal challenges, and his unwavering commitment to his clients.

With a keen eye for detail and a meticulous approach to his work, Khalid has successfully navigated a variety of complex legal matters, including litigation, corporate governance, commercial contracts, and regulatory compliance issues. He has also provided guidance on employment law matters, intellectual property rights and human rights.

Dr. Sujitha Subash Padma Jeya was awarded with the PhD in Biotechnology from VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. In her PhD project she investigated the genetic variants associated with Schizophrenia, with special reference to gene polymorphisms in the Serotoninergic system, ESR1 and DNA repair gene (XRCC1) in Tamil population (South India). This study was supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. 

In 2018, Dr. Sujitha joined the Human Genetics Department, Precision Medicine Program, Sidra Medicine, Qatar, as a Research Specialist. Over there, she worked on several research projects funded by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). She was involved in validating the susceptible variants discovered through 'Whole Genome Sequencing in the Mendelian and Autism' disease subjects. But her special focus was finding the molecular biomarker for Diabetic retinopathy in Qatar's Population using multi-OMICS (circulating miRNA profiling, mRNA expression profiling, methylation profiling, proteomics profiling) approach. As part of the Diabetes Precision Medicine Program, she validated the hub of genes orchestrating the podocytes functions, which were discovered through the Geodata set analysis (retrospective analysis). She has demonstrated the involvement of susceptible transcription factors in pronephros development in Zebrafish hyperglycemic models. She also worked in the 'Qatar Genome Project' assessing the impact of amylase genes Copy Number Variation (Structural Variants) on adiposity in Qatar's Population.

Dr. Sujitha, joined Dr. Fares Al-Ejeh team as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in 2022, and is currently involved in finding clinically actionable potential biomarkers in Qatar's population for Cancer Precision Medicine.

Maisa Ismael Alkailani is a Lecturer at the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She joined HBKU as a senior research associate at the College of Health and Life Sciences, exploring signaling pathways in glioma genesis.

Maisa attended high school in one of the Qatari public sector schools and earned the diploma as one of the outstanding students who sat for the Ministry of Education standardized exams that year. She earned an MSc degree in biomedical sciences with merit from the University College London, studying the role of VEGF-A in modulating detrusor smooth muscle cell differentiation during mouse bladder development.

She also earned an MSc in experimental medicine from McGill University, characterizing molecular mechanisms associated with metastasis signaling in inflammatory breast cancer. She worked on studying the causes and consequences of retrotransposon expression in ovarian and breast cancer to earn her PhD degree in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the University of Ottawa.

After graduating on the Honor list from the biomedical sciences program at Qatar University, she was licensed as a medical laboratory scientist by the American Society for Clinical Pathology. Maisa also served as a teaching assistant at Qatar University for two years.

Ghaneya graduated from Qatar University with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences in 2006. She received a Qatar Research Leadership Program (QRLP) scholarship from the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) in 2016 to pursue her postgraduate education. She holds a Master's and PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Her PhD project focused on exploring the role of cancer testis antigen PRAME in the oncogenesis and tumor progression of breast cancer. She joined Dr. Lawrence Stanton’s team in 2021 as a Senior Research Associate and she is involved in various projects exploring the molecular mechanisms and pathways underlying neurodevelopmental disorders, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). 
 

Dr. Kim Moloney focuses on the intersection of the public administration discipline with international organizations, transnational administration, and good governance, and separately, intersections with the unique policy challenges of small states. She also engages in discussions of social equity and, separately, the intellectual history of public administration. 

She has published in journals such as Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Policy and Society, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Global Policy, and International Review of Administrative Sciences, among others.

Her book, “Who Matters at the World Bank”, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2022. Her co-edited books include the “Oxford Handbook on Global Policy and Transnational Administration” (Oxford University Press, 2019) and the “Routledge Handbook on Crisis, Polycrisis, and Public Administration” (Routledge, 2025).

Dr. Moloney is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Associate Editor of Public Administration Review, Associate Editor of Administrative Theory & Praxis, and Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal on Public Administration. She is also a Co-Editor of the Book Series on Transnational Administration and Global Policy with Bristol University Press.

Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail Elamin specializes in biochemistry and international relations. His work experience includes being a lecturer in multiple universities, and he has also worked as the Foreign Minister of Sudan and the Ambassador of Sudan to the United Nations (UN) and to Switzerland. He was a special envoy of the Arab League to Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. He is now a Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the UN-DNCD partnership, a member of the Arab Crisis Team (ACT) in Jordan and Oman, and a member of the executive board of the Global Forum for Moderation.

Dr. Elamin has participated in and chaired many national, regional, and international conferences; and has published 15 books, mainly in global affairs. 

Dr. Wouter Hendrickx is the principal investigator of the Tumor Biology and Immunology lab in the research branch at Sidra Medicine. He joined Sidra Medicine as a senior postdoctoral fellow and has led his lab since 2017. He has gained experience in stem cell and cancer research by working at the University of Brussels, the University of Leuven, and the University of Norwich. Dr. Wouter Hendrickx has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and an h-index of 27.