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Dr Ghaith Fariz
Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Science in the Arab States
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Dr. GHAITH H. FARIZ
Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Technology in the Arab States
Cluster Office for Egypt, Sudan, and Libya; and UNESCO Representative to Egypt.
Dr. Fariz is a strategic planner with extended international experience in the Arab and Asia regions in providing policy advice; planning; programming; and managing large portfolios in the fields of “knowledge societies/economies”, education, cultural development, poverty alleviation, and socioeconomic development. Also, he is an expert, with hand-on experience, in change management and in piloting UN reform with special emphasis on evaluation of impact, effectiveness and efficiency.
Ghaith Fariz has a Ph. D. in Planning from the University of Michigan, USA, with main course of research involving socioeconomic development, socioeconomic-environment dynamics, and gaming & simulation for research and training. He is Jordanian and he is married with four children.
Ghaith Fariz has a Ph. D. in Planning from the University of Michigan, USA, with main course of research involving socioeconomic development, socioeconomic-environment dynamics, and gaming & simulation for research and training. He is Jordanian and he is married with four children.