Deputy Director General for Licensing and Regulatory Affairs at Dubai Creative Clusters Authority since 2005, UAE. Board Member of Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation since 2017. He started working at Dubai Creative Clusters Authority in 2001, and founded Tamdeen Group, a subsidiary of TECOM Group , in 2007. He also worked as Director of Electromagnetic Systems at Dubai Civil Aviation Authority between 1994 and 2001, and was a Board Member of Dubai Properties Group between 2005 and 2008. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Airport Engineering in 2001 from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 from the University of South Carolina in the United States of America.