Professor Omneya Abdelsalam is a professor of ethical finance & sustainable Development, a certified educator accredited by the UK Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), and a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) since 2004. She obtained her PhD from Edinburgh Business School and held academic positions in triple-accredited UK business schools for 25 years. She has also assumed various academic leadership roles in top international universities over the last 15 years. She is the founding director of the International Research Centre “Ethical Finance, Accountability & Governance” (EFAG) at Durham University (top 100) and the founding and lead director of Durham University Sustainable Development Goals Implementation Network, funded by the British Council (Newton Fund). She received multiple awards and secured substantial research funding totalling £2.25 million from UK and international research councils and industry. She is currently working on two funded international research projects. She published her research in top international academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, British Accounting Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Banking & Finance (All A* rated) as well as Journal of Business Ethics (Financial Times top 50), Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Journal of Financial Stability (All A rated). She is a subject editor of the Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money (A rated) and Emerging Markets Review (A rated). She supervised 126 Master's, MBA & PhD students up to successful completion, and her students have progressed well in academic, research, as well as professional careers in many countries around the world (UK, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Egypt, Germany, UK, Morocco, etc).

Skander Charni is a Research Assistant at Qatar Computing Research Institute and a master’s student in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science with distinction from Qatar University. His current research centers on scalable particle-based variational inference.

Mohamed Chaker received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Université de Montréal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) in 1986. He has been a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Varennes, Quebec, since 1989. From 2003 to 2024, he held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Plasmas Applied to Micro and Nanomanufacturing Technologies.

Professor Chaker has published more than 370 peer-reviewed journal articles (over 20,700 citations, H-index = 81, Google Scholar) in diverse research areas, including advanced plasma source characterization, such as high-density and laser-induced plasmas, and their applications to thin-film and nanomaterials synthesis, nanometer-scale pattern transfer, and device fabrication.

He served as Director of the Centre Énergie et Matériaux (1999–2002) and later as Director of the Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (EMT) (2002–2005) at INRS. Professor Chaker has played a key leadership role in developing major Quebec research consortia, such as Prompt-Québec and NanoQuébec. At the international level, he is frequently invited to participate in expert evaluation committees. Notably, he chaired the Scientific Committee of the Laboratory of Excellence SEAM – Pres Sorbonne Paris Cité (Science and Engineering for Advanced Materials and Devices) from 2011 to 2023. Since 2005, he has also served as Director of the Laboratory of Micro and Nanofabrication (LMN) at INRS.
 

Prof. Jassim Al Suwaidi is the Chief of Scientific, Academic, and Faculty Affairs in HMC. He is an accomplished researcher who has over 25 years of experience in research and clinical medicine. 

Prof. Jassim started his career in Hamad Medical Corporation in 1991 after graduating from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He rejoined HMC in 2000 after completing postgraduate training at Mayo Clinic, USA, and becoming American Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Interventional Cardiology. He received the Mayo Clinic Outstanding Achievement Award in Cardiovascular Research in 2000. Since then, he has been actively involved in HMC’s academic strategies and developments, serving as Chairman of the Research Committee from 2001 to 2003. He has also been the executive director of cardiovascular research since 2013, a professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar, since 2018, and the past president of the Gulf Heart Association, and has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, book contributions, abstracts, and research presentations in most of the prestigious international cardiology meetings. 

In addition to the position of Chief of Scientific, Academic, and Faculty Affairs, Prof. Jassim is holding the position of Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist in the Heart Hospital of HMC. He is also mentoring students, residents, and fellows.
 

Professor Khawla Al-Kuraya is a distinguished physician-scientist and Chair of Human Cancer Genomic Research at the Research & Innovation Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

After completing her residency in Pathology and fellowship in Molecular Diagnostics at
Georgetown University Hospital, where she also obtained board certification in Clinical Pathology, she joined KFSHRC as a Clinical Scientist.

Professor Al-Kuraya is an internationally recognized leader in cancer genomics and translational oncology. Her research focuses on defining the molecular landscape of prevalent Saudi tumors using advanced genomic technologies. Under her leadership, KFSHRC became the only institution from the Middle East to join the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC).

She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications, editorials, and book chapters, and presented more than 300 abstracts at international scientific meetings. Her work has been widely cited and featured in global media for its contribution to precision medicine and population-specific cancer research.

Professor Al-Kuraya serves on the Executive Committee of the ICGC, several editorial boards, and is an active member of major international scientific societies. She is the first Saudi female recipient of the King Abdulaziz Medal (First Rank) for her contributions to medical research and was among the first women appointed to the Majlis Al Shura (Saudi Parliament). She also served as a Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and has received multiple national and international awards recognizing her pioneering role in medical science and women’s leadership in research.
 

Professor Stephen Scherer, PhD DSc FRSC, is Chief of research and holds the Northbridge chair in paediatric research at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and University of Toronto (UofT), and he is Director of the UofT McLaughlin Centre, as well as the Centre for Applied Genomics at SickKids. His team contributed to the landmark discovery of global gene copy number variation (CNV) as a common form of genetic variation in human DNA. As part of this discovery, he founded the Database of Genomic Variants, which now catalogues >2 million CNVs, and is used to facilitate hundreds of thousands of clinical diagnoses worldwide each year. His team also identified CNV of specific genes involved in brain development to contribute to Autism Spectrum Disorder, demonstrating that this complex human behavioral condition can have a biological basis. His research is documented in over 750 scholarly publications and patents. Dr. Scherer has won numerous honors, such as the Steacie prize, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholarship, the Premier’s summit award for medical research, the Killam prize, the Debrecen award for molecular medicine, and multiple honorary degrees. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Canada. In 2014, he was selected as an esteemed Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate) Citation Laureate in Physiology and Medicine for “the discovery of large-scale copy number variation and its association with specific diseases.

Professor Raghib Ali is an internationally recognized leader in clinical epidemiology and population health. He is also a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, research professor at New York University Abu Dhabi, a consultant in Acute Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and an honorary consultant with the Office for Health Disparities and Improvement.

He is the CEO, chief investigator and chief medical officer of Our Future Health, the largest health research programme of its kind in the world with over 2.5 million participants, focused on discovering new ways to prevent, detect, and treat disease. He was appointed as chief medical officer in 2022 and CEO in 2023 and has built Our Future Health into the most diverse cohort in UK history with greater geographic, socio-economic and ethnic diversity than any previous study. 

He graduated from Cambridge University and has been awarded postgraduate degrees in epidemiology and public health from the Universities of London, Cambridge and Oxford and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Professor Raghib’s research is distinguished by methodological rigour, scale, and policy relevance. His research is helping to transform the understanding of the aetiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases. His main research interests are in health inequalities and specifically in improving understanding of the causes of non-communicable diseases in neglected populations in the UK, India and the Middle East, and how to prevent them. 

He has published over 150 papers with over 100,000 citations and an H-index of 55 and been awarded grants of over £400 million for Our Future Health and the UAE Healthy Future Study. He has also been involved in population health research since 2004 nationally and globally, working firstly on UK Biobank, then leading studies of cancer incidence by ethnic group in England and India from 2005 to 2013. 

Professor Raghib Ali established the UAE Healthy Future Study in 2014 which focuses on understanding the causes of common chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He was awarded the OBE for services to the NHS and the Covid 19-response in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2022. In April 2023, he was elected to the Honorary Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health, the highest accolade the Faculty can bestow and is awarded to those who have given exceptional service to the science, literature or practice of public health. 

Dr. Ghanimeh El-Taweel is an Affiliate Instructor at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. She is a disability advocate and activist whose work centers on media accessibility and inclusive communication in the Arab world. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies: Media Accessibility from the University of Antwerp. Ghanimeh teaches courses in Translation for Access, covering topics such as audio description, subtitling for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, and easy-to-understand language. Her research explores the intersection of disability, deafness, and accessibility within Arabic media and cultural contexts.
 

Rayan Khalil is an architect and architectural researcher with over five years of experience in academic research and an equal tenure as a lecturer and design studio instructor. She began her teaching career at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Khartoum, as a teaching assistant, later serving as a lecturer at the National University, which holds accreditation from the British Accreditation Board. 

Alongside her academic career, Rayan has built a long, intermittent practice in architectural and interior design, with her most recent project completed in Cairo, Egypt, in July 2024. She has also contributed as a researcher and writer with Studio Urban, collaborating on multidisciplinary projects with the Goethe-Institut and the British Council.

In addition to her architectural work, Rayan is an accomplished visual artist, having participated in numerous regional and international exhibitions, most recently in Doha in 2024. Her professional journey reflects a commitment to bridging architectural practice, research, and creative expression across diverse cultural and disciplinary contexts, combining scholarly depth with practical design expertise.
 

Dr. Rezart Beka is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He has also served as a consultant for the Digital Sirah Project at CIS, where he leads multilingual research and digital teams in producing innovative 3D and VR educational content on the Prophet’s life.