Education
Nuseibeh holds an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Imperial College, London and a Master of Science degree from the same university.
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Ghanem Nuseibeh
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As a trained civil engineer, he has taken part in the design of major international infrastructure projects, including the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey dual oil and gas pipe-line, the Durrat First Rate (at Lloyd's) Bahrain man-made island and the Dubai Tower in Doha, Qatar"s then tallest proposed building. Before founding his own consultancy, Nuseibeh worked with WS Atkins and Mouchel Parkman. He has also written articles for newspapers and magazines published around the world.
He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering"s Top Flight scholarship in 1996.
Ghanem Nuseibeh is a Patron of the Executive Committee of the British Friends of Neve Shalom – Wāħat as-Salām, a village outside Jerusalem built to promote peace between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. As part of his student work, he contributed to the "Report of Extremism and Intolerance on Campus", produced by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of British Universities in 1997.
Nuseibeh was on the advisory board of Just Journalism, a United Kingdom-based organisation that monitors the coverage of Israeli and Middle Eastern issues in the British media. In an extensive report about him by The National daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi in 2011, Nuseibeh was described as "the man investment bankers, business executives and even government officials turn to when they want to know what is happening in the Arab world.
Not what appears to be happening on the surface, but what is really happening, and what it all means".
Achievements
Membership
He was a member of the Club of Rome"s think-tank 30 from 2004 to 2008, and is in charge of the Gulf region"s section of the Budapest-based think-tank Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute, and Senior Visiting Fellow at King"s College, London. He is a member of the Nuseibeh (alternatively spelt Nusseibeh) family of Jerusalem and lives in Dubai and London. Nuseibeh has written numerous publications including co-authoring two books with members of the Club of Rome"s tt30, Information and communications technology for Education and Development: the challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Letters to the Future.
