Fadi Salem
University of Oxford
Oxford UK / Aleppo Syria
Fadi has over fifteen years of multidisciplinary working experience in the public sector, technology, media and policy research fields. Over the past decade, he has been leading regional policy research in the Middle East and North Africa focusing on digital governance, the Internet, public policy and innovation in society as Director of the Governance and Innovation Program, and Fellow, at the Dubai School of Government (now MBRSG). He was earlier an Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; and a Fellow at the I+I Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His areas of experience have spanned open government, social media, smart cities, citizen engagement, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship, e-participation, 'future of government' models; and the impact of digital media on political and societal discourses in the Middle East. He is a PhD in Public Policy candidate at the University of Oxford and a graduate from the London School of Economics and Aleppo University.