Meet Your Dean
Professor Khalid Hafeez
Dean e-School of Business and Quality Management
Professor Khalid Hafeez Siddiqui is the Dean of e-School of Business & Quality Management at Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University. His earlier appointments include Readership in Operations Management and founding Director for the Centre for Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Bradford UK, Director Part-time MBA at the Sheffield Business School, Course Director for the suites of MSc Programs in Organisational Development & Consultancy, MSc Systems Management and Consultancy and the world’s first ever MSc in Knowledge Management & Consultancy. He has also served as Lucas Senior Research Fellow at the Cardiff University UK. In his latest positions he has served as a Professor and Yorkshire Forward Knowledge Transfer Champion helping to develop entrepreneurial capacity of regional SME’s. Professor Hafeez has edited many special issues and conference proceedings, and have published more than 100 technical articles in world class journals such as Journal of TQM & Business Excellence, Int J. Quality & Standards. Int. J. Production Economics, Int J. of Production Research, Int. J. of End User Computing, Journal of Applied Behavioural Sciences, IEEE Engineering Management, Journal of Computing and Operations Research, and Journal of Operations Research Society Special issue on Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital, Int. J. Logistics Economics and Globalisation, and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management to name a few. He has supervised more than 10 PhD students to successful completion. He has obtained many professional and academic qualifications including:
- Certified EFQM European Assessor, Brussels (2008)
- Fellow NCGE Entrepreneurial Leadership Trainer (2007)
- Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt - Hearrington Institute, USA (2006)
- Certified Project Manager - Hearrington Institute, USA (2006)
- Certified Executive Trainer - Harvard Business School, USA (2006)
- Certified On–line Trainer - City University, UK (2005)
- PhD Manufacturing - University of Cardiff, UK (1991).
Prof. Alain R. Senteni
Dean of School of e-Education
Prof Alain Senteni is the Dean of the School of e-Education at Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University. From 2001 to 2008, Prof Senteni was the first appointed Director of the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies (VCILT) and the Chairman of the Lifelong Learning Cluster (LLC) of the University of Mauritius. Since 2001, Prof Senteni has been the Chair Person of the Education Commission of the IFIP World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR)
- Engineering Degree in Computer Science (1969) National Polytechnics Institute (INPT), Toulouse (France).
- PhD in Computer Science (1989) National Polytechnics Institute (INPT), Toulouse (France).
- HDR (1995) Enabling to Conduct Research in Computer Science from the National Polytechnics Institute (INPT), Toulouse (France).
Professor Rachid HADJHAMOU
Dean Of e-School of Health & Environmental Studies
- Doctor of Science, Boston University, USA.
- Master of Science, Boston University, USA.
- Senior Advisor, Vice Chancellor Office, Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, Dubai, UAE.
- Senior Consultant, e-School of Health and Environmental Studies, Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, Dubai, UAE.
- Editor of The International Journal of Excellence in Healthcare Management.
- Member of the Advisory Board, e-School of Health and Environmental Studies, Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, Dubai, UAE.