Director of the Regional Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Arab World “ICCROM - Sharjah” since 2003 and the regional representative of the “ICCROM Organization” for Arab countries in the United Arab Emirates. He has 20 years of experience in the fields of cultural heritage preservation and planning, where he worked as a senior honorary lecturer at University College London in Qatar between 2012 and 2014, and a director of cultural heritage and heritage preservation specialist in the Petra Preservation Project within a German-Jordanian cooperation between 1994 and 1996, and a resource management specialist. Cultural work at the United States Agency for International Development “USAID” in Jordan between 1992 and 1994. He also previously worked as a consultant for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the European Union and ICCROM on heritage preservation and management projects in Arab countries. He also lectured at the American University of Sharjah in the fields of heritage preservation, Islamic art and engineering. Architectural. He holds a doctorate in heritage management and conservation in 2000 from University College London in the United Kingdom, a master’s degree in applied sciences specializing in urban environmental conservation in 1991 from the University of Montreal in Canada, and a bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1988.