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MEKEI, in conjunction with WASD, has built a strong network of researchers, policy makers, educators, consultants and employers from all parts of the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss current developments and challenges. This directory can be used to help find, support and collaborate with experts from the network. Interested in joining the expert directory? Complete the application form. Please check your details in our directory after 48 hrs and if you can not find your name, please contact the directory coordinator at admin@wasd.org.uk. You can also join the expert directories of our sister organisation: World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) and Sudan Knowledge (SK).
Prof. Mahdi Kadivar
Professor
Professor Mahdi Kadivar obtained his PhD degree in food science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2001, with a thesis entitled “Studies on integrated processes for the recovery of mucilage, hull, oil and protein from Solin®”.…
Dr. Abdelheq Lachachi
Associate Professor
Dr. Abdelheq Lachachi is an associate professor at the University of Tlemcen, Algeria and the Aljouf University the Saudi Arabia Kingdom. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Master’s degree in Human Resources Management (Major in the promotion) from the University of Tlemcen, Algeria in 2008 and 2010 respectively.…
Prof. Kerstin R. Kruger
Associate Professor
Prof. R. Kruger is an Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria. She is particularly interested in insect pests of horticultural crops, including vectors of plant virus diseases, and insects as natural enemies (parasitoids and predators) of insect pests on plants.…
Dr. Maha Bushra Hamed
Head of the Dietetic Department
Maha Bushra Hamed was born in Sudan 1972 and has been residing in Saudi Arabia since 1995. She holds a PhD in Human Nutrition from Ahfad University for Women in Sudan 2009, joining the Saudi-German Hospital Group as a head of the Dietetic Department in 2001.…
Umima Khanom
Admissions Officer
I have been working in Admissions for over 5 years at University of Westminster and Kingston University. I have the knowledge to assist and guide international students through application to UK universities.…
Tahir Eltahir
Managing Director
I am an accounting, financial, management consultant with long diversified experience in corporate and banking. Effectively participated in setting-up accounting, financial, policies and procedures and governance systems for companies in Saudi & Bahrain.…
Dr. Omar Salaibi
Assistant Professor
Dr. Omar Salabi is an Assistant Professor in the Developmental Sciences Department at Al-Quds University. He has been a Faculty Member at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Al-Quds University since 1983.…
Dr. George Grimble
Principal Teaching Fellow
Dr George Grimble has been working in the area of Clinical Nutrition since 1980 with a special emphasis on clinical gastroenterology research, intensive care medicine and nutrition in older people. He is currently Principal Teaching Fellow at UCL in the Centre for Gastroenterology & Nutrition in the Division of Medicine.…
Prof. Geoffrey Oldham
Professor
Prof. Oldham is an Honorary Professor with SPRU at the University of Sussex, UK. Prof. Oldham trained as a geophysicist and spent several years in the exploration research laboratories of Standard Oil Company of California.…
prof. Babiker Idris Babiker
Professor
Babiker Idris Babiker is a Professor in Agricultural Marketing. He received his MPhil from Reading University (1971) and his PhD from The Ohio State University (1982). Currently, he teaches agricultural marketing and macroeconomics for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Khartoum.…
Dr. Salwa Reda El-Batrawy
Assistant Professor
Dr. Salwa Reda El-Batrawy is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, National Institute of Research, Cairo, Egypt. She is interested in under and malnutrition diseases based on her desire to contribute to the efforts done nowadays by many governmental and non-governmental agents to prevent and treat these diseases among children.…
Dr. Anji Ben Hamed
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Dr. Anji Benhamed holds a PhD from the University of Paris 13, Sorbonne, Paris City, in the area of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship with the highest level of distinction that could be awarded for a PhD in that first Category University in France.…
Dr. Sumeet Dwivedi
Assistant Professor
Sumeet Dwivedi obtained his B.Pharm from Smriti College of Pharmaceutical Education, Indore, M.P., M.Pharm (Pharmacognosy), with Hons./Gold Medal from Vinayaka Missions University, Salem, T.N, and is working towards his PhD from Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, R.J.…
prof. Ashraf Shaalan
President
Prof. Shaalan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1983 and then joined the National Research Centre (NRC) as a researcher in the field of biological anthropology, in addition to his original interest as a pediatrician.…
Prof. Djamel Eddine Laouisset
Professor
Former University Vice President – Algeria
Former Director of Research& Studies – National Institute for Global Strategic Studies -Algeria
Former Advisor Minister of Economy – United Arab Emirates
Visiting Professor Business School – Nottingham Business School – UK
Dr. Mohamed Kabbar Mohamed
President
Belgian from Sudanese origin, born n Elsuki (Sudan) 01/02/1946, Married; Agricultural engineer (Ministry of Agriculture) in Sudan 1972 – 1990; Work with the World Bank in Sudan 1979 – 1981; Rehabilitation programs for irrigated sector in Sudan –New Halfa; Agricultural section director NHAPC Sudan 1981 -1982; Private work in the agricultural sector in Sudan 1982 – 1984; Assistant managing director New Halfa irrigation scheme Sudan 1984 – 1988; Researcher (in Gent university RUG) in agricultural economic and development 1990 -1995; Land information study officer by Amnesty International Vlanderen in Belgium 1998 – 2000; Translator in the ministry of interior Belgium Nederland- English -Arabic; Economic expert in Qatar Embassy Brussels Belgium 2004-2006; Recognized translator under oath in Belgium for Dutch – English – Arabic; Self-employed consultant in Belgium in social and economic studies and
translation from 2002 till now.…
Dr. Saifeldin Siddeeg
Assistant Professor
I am an assistant professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Chemistry Department, College of Science at King Khalid University as well as an assistant professor-researcher at Atomic Energy Commission in Sudan. I completed my BSc in Chemistry (Honour degree 2:1) at the University of Khartoum in 2003 and my MSc in Radiation Chemistry at Sudan Academy of Sciences in 2007.…
Dr. Nabih A. H. Ibrahim
Researcher
Dr. Nabih A. H. Ibrahim is a researcher at Food Technology Research Institute. He has supervised many types of research such as Underreporting of food intake by the dietary recall is not universal: a comparison of data from Egyptian and American women, Vegetable oil of poor quality is limiting the success of fortification with vitamin A in Egypt and Development of the food consumption monitoring system in Egypt.
Dr. Mayada Abuaffan
Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Dr. Mayada Abu Affan Graduated from Khartoum Medical School in the Sudan , completed foundation training and the MD in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Sudan . During her working in obstetrics and gynaecology she became convinced that a combination of population and clinical perspectives are the most powerful approaches to improving health and achieving a bigger impact on health and health service quality, as a resulted she entered the Public Health higher specialist training programme in Scotland and obtained the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in 2006.…