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Organizing Committee

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Dalal Najib
Director - Science and Engineering Capacity Building
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
United States
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalal-najib-35778331/

Daniel Placht
Associate Program Officer
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
United States
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-placht-45998757/

Organizing Committee

Dena Al-Thani
Committee Co-Chair
Assistant Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar
Website: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/cse/staff/dena-ahmed-s-al-thani

Leonard Pease
Committee Co-Chair 
Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States
Website: https://energyenvironment.pnnl.gov/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=2752

Session Chairs

Session 1: Advanced Materials

Majid Al-Ruqeishi, Associate Researcher, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 
Website: https://om.linkedin.com/in/majid-al-ruqeishi-9719b13a

Amal El-Ghazaly, Associate Professor, Cornell University, United States 
Website: https://www.ece.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/amal-el-ghazaly

Session 2: e-Health

Nady El-Hajj, HBKU, Qatar
Website: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/staff/nady-el-hajj

Ellie Graeden, Talus Analytics, United States
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egraeden/

Session 3: Water, Food, Energy

Tareq Al-Ansari, HBKU, Qatar
Website: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/cse/staff/tareq-al-ansari

Emily Kumpel, University of Massachusetts, United States
Website: https://cee.umass.edu/faculty/emily-kumpel

Session 4: Emerging Technologies and Society

Mohamed Bakhouya, International University of Rabat, Morocco
Website: https://www.uir.ac.ma/fr/pole/lerma-energies-renouvelables-et-materiaux/...

April Salas, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, United States
Website: N/A

Session 5: Cybersecurity

Saif Al-Kuwari, HBKU, Qatar
Website: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/cse/staff/saif-al%E2%80%91kuwari

Ryan Donaghy, National Risk Management Center, United States
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandonaghyphd/