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Experts Network
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).
Dr. Adil Dafa’Alla
Specialist Member
Dr. Adil A. Dafa’Alla (Ph.D; C.Eng.; EurIng) has graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Khartoum, Sudan in 1981. He then did his postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in England, where he was awarded his Ph.D degree in 1988.…
Mohamed Elhag
Managing Director
Management consultancy leader, business transformation expert and business architect with an extensive background in public and private sectors, specialising in business strategies, business process re-engineering, change management, organizational transformation, knowledge management, and ICT. …
Amrit Banstola
Researcher
Amrit Banstola is a health researcher from Nepal. He currently leads the Department of Research and Training at Public Health Perspective Nepal and edits its monthly newsletter. His research interests include noncommunicable diseases, injury, nutrition, child health, climate change, policy analysis and health economics.
Dr. Sundus Tewfik
Pharmaceutical Scientist
Dr. Sundus Tewfik is the Course Leader for Herbal Medicinal Sciences at the Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Human Sciences, London Metropolitan University. As a Pharmaceutical scientist, she lectures on conventional and herbal pharmacology.…
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.…
Ala Subhi
Journalist (Deceased)
Ala Subhi has been working as a Broadcast Journalist and Duty Editor for the BBC Arabic Service in London for more than 10 Years. He worked as a broadcast journalist for the last 18 years in Khartoum, Lyon and London working for Sudan Radio and TV, Euronews, Amnesty International and the BBC.…
Dr. Basma ElSafi
Consultant
Basma ElSafi studied Medicine at the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is a Consultant in Acute Medicine
at Kings College Hospital in London. She holds MBBS, MD (MRCP equivalent), and the Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP).…
Victoria Richards
Senior Lecturer
Vicky Richards is a senior lecturer in organisational behaviour and human resource management and is course leader for the MSc Human Resource Management. As previous course leader for the MA in Personnel and Development, Vicky has extensive experience in teaching students working in professional HR roles and has subject expertise in employee relations, employee reward and strategic and international HRM.…
Janet Snow
Editor
Janet Snow worked at the University of Sussex for over 27 years. Until the creation of the School of Business, Management and Economics (BMEc) in 2009, she worked exclusive for the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), in various roles including supporting several research units, administration for the research degree programme, and full administration for the Business and Management single honours undergraduate programme.…
Dr. Hassan Hamdoun
Research Fellow
Research Fellow at Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Working on data analysis and Complex networks modelling and optimisation with applications to Communications networks, Health, broadband networks, Information Communications Technology (ICT) Energy Management and internet of things (IOT)-based networks. …
Dr. Osama Idris
Technical Sales Director
Osama H.M. Idris has been working with the Gum Arabic manufacturing and business for over 30 years (9 years with the Gum Arabic Company in the Sudan, and 21 years with the Spray Drying Gum Arabic Factory in UK).…
Abdul Salam Seid Ahmed
Solicitor and Notary Public
Mr Abdul Salam is originally from Sudan came to the UK in 1989 as a young student. He completed his LLB in 1995 and postgraduate diploma in 1997. He qualified as solicitor in 2000 and set up his own firm.…
Prof. Janet Druker
Professor
Janet Druker is a Professor at the University of Westminster, London, supporting research development within the Business School. Her most recent full-time post was as Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor at Canterbury Christ Church University where she was based from 2005 until December 2010, leading research across the University.…
Dr. Barry Lee-Scherer
Prinicipal Lecturer
Barry is Principal Lecturer in International Management and Organisational Behaviour. He is an expert in international management education and development and organisational behaviour, with a wide experience of teaching and consultancy in the UK, France, Italy and Germany, as well as the USA, Russia, Africa and Asia. …
Graham Clifford
Senior Lecturer
Graham is a senior lecturer and teaches on the MBA and postgraduate courses, also acting as dissertation supervisor. Graham leads the Strategy subject group and takes a keen interest in management buy-outs, family businesses, turnaround, venture capital, and acquisitions and mergers.…
David Otto
Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Expert
David Otto is the Founding Director of TGS Intelligence Consultants Ltd and the Founder of the Conflict Resolution Programme – Step In Step Out (SISO) based in the United Kingdom. David’s Work focuses on political Instability, Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime – from vulnerabilities –radicalisation – extremism – violent extremism and counter narrative awareness solutions between the West and Africa dynamics. …
Dr. Joanne Fiona Murray
Researcher
Joanne Fiona Murray is a graduate of the University of Sydney where she first completed a BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Science specialising in the animal production and then completed a PhD.…
Rabeh Morrar
Senior Researcher
Rabeh Morrar was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1981. He received the B.A degree in Mathematical Applied to Economics from Birzeit University, Palestine, in 2003, and the M.A. in Economics from Birzeit University, Palestine, 2006, and Ph.D.…
Dr. Wafi Al-Karaghouli
Lecturer
Dr Wafi Al-Karaghouli, BA Statistics (Baghdad), MPhil Statistics and Operations Research (London), PhD IS Failures (Brunel), Cert. TQM, Cert. PRINCE2, MBCS, MElite, MPROMS-G, MRESG,FINFOMS. Wafi has gained extensive experience with multinational companies and has twelve years industrial experience, of which one was a blue-chip, and nineteen years in Higher Education.…
Dr. Muna Abdel Aziz
Director
Muna Abdel Aziz is the Director of Public Health for Warrington. Muna has a medical degree and first started her career in public health in 1992 as an academic. She completed her MD in Sudan, PhD from Cambridge, and is professionally accredited as a specialist in public health in both countries.…