H.E.
Mohammed Ali Al Qaed
is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
eGovernment Authority (eGA) in Bahrain. His
experience in the field of IT has helped develop and
grow the eGovernment Authority to be one of the
leading eGovernment Authorities in the Gulf region
and the international community. In September 2009,
he participated in the Global Alliance for ICT and
Development for the United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID) Forum
where he served as a member of the Strategy Council
by special invite from H.E. Sha Zukang,
Under-Secretary-General from the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs.
H.E. Al Qaed helped draft and implement the
eGovernment strategy and the strategic direction of
eGovernment in the Kingdom through his position as a
key member of the Technical Committee for
Information and Communication Technology (TCICT)
which acts as the technical advisory committee to
the Supreme Committee for Information and
Communication Technology (SCICT) chaired by HH
Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime
Minister.
Prior to his assignment at the eGA, H.E. Al Qaed was
General Director of Information Technology at the
Central Informatics Organization (CIO) from 1993
until 2007 where he occupied a number of positions.
In this role he contributed to the establishment of
mechanisms for the protection of government systems.
H.E. Al Qaed obtained his Bachelor‘s degree from King
Saud University in Saudi Arabia in computer science
in 1993 followed by a Master’s degree in Advanced
Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield
in 1996.
He is a talented writer and has contributed to a
number of articles on technical and managerial
aspects of IT in several publications. |