Archives: Team

• President and CEO, Orbit
• President & CEO , Cambridge Institute for Global LeadershipExecutive
• Board Member: Reuters Europe/Middle East/Africa – Geneva, Reuters Group

Michael Kouly, a World Bank Fellow, senior international executive, writer, journalist & a PhD scholar who has studied and researched Global Leadership at Harvard, Princeton, Maastricht and Michigan-Ann Arbor universities.

Michael has spoken on Leadership, Strategy and policy-making to thousands of top government, education, NGO and business executives in dozens of countries stretching from the United States to Asia. His practical knowledge comes from a 17-year international career with Reuters where he worked in 22 countries leading people from 47 nationalities. His last responsibilities were Managing Director of Reuters Middle East Ltd. and executive board member of Reuters Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Michael is currently the President of Cambridge Institute for Global Leadership (CIGL), a leadership Think-Tank that generates knowledge on the subject of leadership and builds the leadership capacity of people and organizations worldwide. He is the Founding President of Leaders Across Borders LAB, a non-profit international body that promotes leadership initiatives across national, racial, religious, social, ethic and cultural boundaries.

Dr. Wafi Dawood is a Board member and the CEO of Strategy & Planning in the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA). He is also an Adjunct Professor in the British University in Dubai. Dr. Dawood also serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the 2 the Point international consultancy based in Zurich. In addition, he is a subject matter consultant with PWC and IBM Kenexa. Dr. Dawood is also a member of the editorial committee of the Ministry of Interior Quality Journal.

He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Management and has also completed the Sheikh Mohammed leadership program. In 2004, Dr. Wafi was awarded by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, as the Distinguished Employee of Dubai Government.

His professional career included working as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dubai Quality Group, the Vice Chairman of the Global Benchmarking Network. He has also worked in Dubai World Trade Centre as the Director of Corporate Performance & Quality. Before that, he worked as the Quality Senior Manager in DP World, where he assisted the organization to win Dubai Government Excellence Program – Golden Category in 2005.

Dr. Wafi Dawood has led KHDA’s participation project in the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) program, and assisted the organization to be awarded the 5 Star Recognized for Excellence as the first organization in the Middle in 2013.

Dr. Dawood has also worked in consultancy Projects in UAE, UK, Singapore, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi. He has many Publications related to Performance Management and Quality in international conferences. He has also spoken in many National and International Conferences.

Nasser Yassin is a Professor at the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP), Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut. He is also the Director of Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, and Professor of policy and planning at the Health Management and Policy Department at the AUB.

He co-chairs the AUB4Refugees Initiative that brings together and builds synergy among faculty and departments in AUB responding to the Syrian refugee crisis.

He researches and advises on policy and social innovation especially in areas of health, youth and refugee policies and programs. His work looks at how civil society actors, community groups and informal networks can influence policies as well as development and humanitarian programs. He is currently leading a research project on understanding the informal adaptive mechanisms among refugees and their host communities in the Middle East. He is author of more than 30 internationally published articles and reports.

His research Interests are policy and social innovation especially in areas of health, youth and refugee policies and programs. His work looks at how civil society actors, community groups and informal networks can influence policies as well as development and humanitarian programs.

His teaching Interests are Public Policy; Health Policy; Innovation and Health; Civil Society and Policymaking.

Afshin Molavi is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, where he writes broadly on emerging markets, particularly on themes related to ‘The New Silk Road,’ South-South trade, global hub cities, new emerging market multinationals, global aviation, the geopolitics of energy, and the intersection of Middle East states and the global economy.

Molavi was also a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, and a former director of the World Economic Roundtable, an ambitious effort to re-map the global economy in the wake of the Great Recession. He is also the founder and editor of the New Silk Road Monitor, a site that examines the markets, societies, cultures and politics of countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and beyond (from Bollywood to Bond Markets).

A former journalist with postings in Dubai, Riyadh, Jeddah, and Tehran, his dispatches from the Middle East and essays have been published in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Businessweek, The Journal of Commerce, National Geographic, and dozens of academic and specialty publications. He is also a contributing writer to the Washington Post Global Opinions section and, most recently, to Newsweek Japan.

He is a regular speaker at investment conferences, universities, think tanks, and the media, and has also served as an analyst at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector development arm of the World Bank, and is co-founder of emerge85 Lab, an initiative dedicated to exploring change in the emerging world and its global impact.

Muna Hakooz has more than 30 years of experience in good governance, NGOs, institutional capacity building and assessment, human resources management and development including: HR competency-base framework, drafting HR bylaws and HR policies and procedures manuals, performance management, selection and recruitment, training and development, human resources planning, career paths and planning, restructuring including organizational function analysis and clustering, organizational structure designing, job descriptions, ToT, EU technical team leader, family affairs and gender mainstreaming, integrity and transparency assessment, code of ethics and public and private sectors experience.

She held the position of Executive Director for HR Policy Administration/ Secretary General at the Ministry of Public Sector Development for more than two years. Recently she is working as a short-term senior consultant for the Legislative and Opinion Bureau with the Rule of Law-USAID project to develop its organizational structure and competency-based job descriptions. She worked with the JCP-USAID to design the organizational structure, job descriptions and all HR are manuals and systems for a new company to be established in Jordan. She worked in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in developing competency dictionary, articulating job description, training needs assessment, career paths and succession planning. She worked as a Capacity Building/ Key Expert for -EU funded project-t to provide technical assistance to the MoJ 2007-2008. She was the Director of Organizational Development and Resources Management Department, at TRC for 7 years. She worked for the MoICT for two years as the Director of Planning, Management Development and Training. She also worked for Jordan Telecom in the Human Resources Management Department for 12 years.

She has MSc. in Human Resources Development (HRD), Manchester University, 1997, B.A in Business Administration and Economics from University of Jordan, 1984, and Senior Executive Program for the Middle East (SEPME) in Harvard University, USA, 2002-2003.

Ammar W Mango is an Organizational Consultant, Entrepreneur, and Facilitator. With more than 25 years in the strategic consulting field, he has a strong global consulting background especially in organizational project management.

After 13 years of consulting in the United States for Fortune 100 companies, including Visteon, Ford Electronics Division, Ford Motor, and Detroit Edison, Mr. Mango started offering his services in the Middle East region, based out of Jordan.

As a facilitator, Mr. Mango trained thousands of Professionals on subjects that include Project Management, Leadership, Program Management, and Six Sigma. He is Certified Simulation Leader by TOPSIM Germany.

His entrepreneurial endeavors include starting Method Corp as a company specializing in Organizational Project Management, and starting Case in Point, a company specialized in Simulation Based Learning. He is also acting President for Walid Mango Housing Company and Investor in FindikSuyu Villas and Spa in Turkey.

With a diverse experience working across industries, Mr. Mango provided his consulting services for companies in the fields of IT, Governmental, Automotive, Construction, Banking, Engineering, Utilities, and Nuclear.

Mr. Mango is the first Jordanian to become PMP certified in 1991, and became Six Sigma Black Belt in 2005. He participated as guest speaker and led panel discussions at global professional conferences.