Kamal Shehadeh is a pacesetter within the fields of telecommunications and expertise.
He earned an honors bachelor’s diploma from Harvard College in Boston and a PhD from Columbia College in New York, the place he additionally taught at each establishments, along with the American College of Beirut.
Shehadeh is a associate at THX Ventures, specializing in the event of technological initiatives and offering consultancy for tech startups. He’s additionally a member of the Board of Trustees on the Lebanese American College (LAU).
Beforehand, Shehadeh served because the Chief Govt Officer for Authorized and Regulatory Affairs, adopted by his function as Chief Govt Officer for Strategic Affairs at Group &e, one of many main telecommunications firms within the United Arab Emirates.
He chaired the group of Chief Govt Officers for Coverage and Regulation on the GSM Affiliation, the worldwide cellular communications business physique.
Moreover, Shehadeh held the place of Chairman at Lebanon’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, the primary impartial physique established to manage the telecommunications sector within the nation. Beneath his management, the authority launched telecommunications laws and designed the general public public sale course of for mobile telecom licenses.
Shehadeh additionally served because the Chairman of the International Symposium for Regulators on the Worldwide Telecommunication Union (ITU) and labored as a marketing consultant for the World Financial institution, advising on privatization and public-private partnerships in infrastructure initiatives throughout the Center East and North Africa, overseeing initiatives in additional than ten international locations.
A founding member of the Lebanese Affiliation for Democratic Elections, Shehadeh additionally served on the board of the Lebanese Transparency Affiliation. He was the Director of Analysis on the Lebanese Middle for Coverage Research and has revealed quite a few research on matters comparable to Lebanon’s public finance, monetary reforms, and the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.
Shehadeh has offered consultancy for numerous international locations on infrastructure funding initiatives, together with main the event of the contract for working and sustaining the container terminal on the Port of Beirut and formulating the technique for the liberalization and regulation of the civil aviation sector in Saudi Arabia.
