Ghanem Nuseibeh

Ghanem Nuseibeh (born 11 May 1977) is a member of the Club of Rome's think-tank 30 since 2004, and is in charge of the Gulf region's section of the Budapest-based think-tank Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute. He is a member of the Nuseibeh (alternatively spelt Nusseibeh) family of Jerusalem and lives in London and Dubai.

Nuseibeh is a trained civil engineer who took part in the design of major international infrastructure projects including the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey dual oil and gas pipe-line, Durrat Al 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.

Nuseibeh appears regularly in the international media talking AbOUT global development issues in particular, and the Gulf region specifically. In 2009, he was invited to join the Advisory Board of the Canadian-based newly-created New Currency Institute.

Nuseibeh has written numerous publications including co-authoring 2 books with members of the Club of Rome's tt30 on "ICT for Education and Development: the challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Africa" and "Letters to the Future".

He is the 2005 winner of the British Geotechnical Association's Prediction competition and the 1st winner of the ALGS Papers Competition of the Institute of Civil Engineers in London. He was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering's Top Flight scholarship in 1996. He holds an undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Imperial College, London and a Master of Science degree from the same university.

Ghanem Nuseibeh is a member 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.

Ghanem Nuseibeh is a co-founder and former President of the Middle East Student's Union in the United Kingdom, which was created in 1996 to create a common-ground for Jewish, Christian and Muslim students. 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.

References and selected media quotes

Club of Rome's tt30 1 Nuseibeh Family Website 2 Reuters report 3 Budapest Sun report 4 5 The Peninsula Qatar report 6

Publications

ICT for Education and Development - tt30 book 7 Letters to the Future - tt30 book 8