President of the World Meteorological Organization since June 2023, Switzerland.

He has been the Director General of the National Center of Meteorology since 2008, the Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the World Meteorological Organization, the elected Chairman of the Permanent Committee for Meteorology and Climate in the Gulf Cooperation Council , and the Regional Chairman of the Asian Meteorological Association since 2017.

He is the first Arab to assume the presidency of the World Meteorological Organization.

He started working in the field of meteorology as a weather forecaster at Al Dhafra Air Base between 1990 and 1998, and held the position of Chief Weather Forecaster at Al Dhafra Air Base between 1999 and 2000, then Head of the Meteorology Department, and Deputy Director of the Department in the Water Resources Studies Department of the Office of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan between 2000 and 2004.

He also served as Deputy Director of the National Project for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) between 2000 and 2004, and assumed responsibility for managing the cloud seeding project in the country in cooperation with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the United States of America. He held the position of Director of the Atmospheric Studies Department of the Ministry of Presidential Affairs between 2005 and 2007.

He also established a national network of automatic meteorological stations, a national network for seismic monitoring, a climate database for meteorological monitoring, and a seismic database for seismic monitoring. He contributed to the development of numerical forecasting programs and a high-resolution weather simulation program for the UAE, and established the organizational structure of the National Center of Meteorology and Seismology and the organizing regulations, and was interested in activating the Emiratisation policy.

He won the Best CEO Award in the Middle East and was selected among the “30 Most Prominent Climate Action Figures” for 2023 by Business Insider Magazine.

He holds a PhD in Meteorology in 2012 from the University of Belgrade in Serbia, a Master’s degree in Meteorology in 2005 from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and a Bachelor’s degree in the same specialization in 1989 from Saint Louis University in the United States of America.