Senior Strategic Advisor and Data Scientist, King Abdulaziz University Jeddah Saudi Arabia
Ph.D. in Software Engineering, Ph.D. in Geographic Information Systems, MBA,
Dr. Mohammed Khursheed Akhtar has over more than 30 years of experience in the field of Teaching, Research, Strategic Planning, Data Research and Analysis, Consulting, and IT Business Development. He has two (2) PhDs, one from Atlantic International University, Hawaii, the USA in 2004-2007 in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and another Singhania University Rajasthan, India in 2011-2015 in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He has a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics with Honors. He has a Diploma in Computer Software and Techniques in 1988. He has a diploma in Islamic Finance and Insurance in 2017.
Dr. Akhtar is currently working as Dean and CIO, ECGS Education Group (Elite Leadership Training Center) – AI Training and Consultancy, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from August 2023.
He worked as Senior Strategic Advisor and Data Scientist at the Research and Studies
Unit of Strategic Center to Kingdom Vision Realization of King Abdulaziz University,
Jeddah, and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under Kingdom Vision's 2030 from 2019 to 2023.
He worked as a Data Scientist at KAU Web Observatory for Web Studies from 2017 to
2019; as a Research Fellow at the Strategic Department of KAU from 2013 to 2107; as a
Deputy Project Manager at KAU-ERP Implementation Project from 2011 to 2012; As a
Faculty Member from 2008 to 2011 at the Faculty of Commuting and Information
Technology and as a GIS Head at Projects and Proposal Department from 2005 to 2008,
and Data-Based Specialist from 1990 to 2005 in King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.