Gulf Research Meeting
Sofiane Sahraoui
Dr. Sofiane Sahraoui is President of the Arab Governance Institute which he co-founded in 2012. He is currently Senior Advisor in charge of consulting and research at the Institute of Public Administration of Bahrain (BIPA). Prior to joining BIPA in 2009, he held several faculty and academic administration positions in Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. He is also an Associate Research Fellow at Brunel Business School in the UK. Dr. Sahraoui led the foundation of the MENAPAR (Middle East & North Africa Initiative for Public Administration Research) initiative and has been elected as its Director of Research. He sits on the Board of Management of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA) and is its Vice-President for the MENA region. He co-chairs its working group on “Governance & Public Policy.” He was elected to be the General Rapporteur of the 2013 Congress of IIAS/IASIA, one of the largest conferences in Public Administration in the world and has facilitated a workshop during the UNDESA public service awards summit in 2013. Dr. Sahraoui holds a Ph.D. domestically and internationally from the University of Pittsburgh (Katz Graduate School of Business), MSc. from the University of Oxford (College of St Anne’s) and an undergraduate degree from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (IHEC) in Tunis. His research is primarily on governance and organisational design. He has published two books and more than 40 research articles in leading academic journals and conference proceedings and speaks regularly at international professional gatherings. He was the guest editor of the prestigious European Journal of Information Systems and serves on the editorial board of many journals including Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy. He holds regular seminars and workshops on higher education governance as part of his consulting activities and serves as auditor for a number of quality assurance agencies and as such regularly participates in institutional accreditations and program review visits. As a consultant for ANQAHE (Arab Network for Quality Assurance for Higher Education), he 13 developed a UNESCO-funded study on quality assurance of higher education in the Arab region.
