Mohamed AlSharhan, Distinguished Fellow

Mohamed AlSharhan is the Managing Director of the World Governments Summit Organization at the UAE Prime Minister’s Office. Mohamed held the position of the Deputy Managing Director between 2020 and 2023. Between 2018 and 2020, AlSharhan was the Projects Manager at the Dubai Future Foundation, where he led a number of projects such as Dubai 10X and the FIRST Global Championship for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, which witnessed the participation of 191 teams from different countries around the world, and the CEO Summit hosted under the patronage of the Crown Prince of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum.

Prior to joining the Dubai Future Foundation, Al Sharhan worked as an engineer specialized in sustainable transport, and as a researcher at Masdar Institute in the field of transport and sustainable development between 2011 and 2013.

Mohamed is a National Expert at the UAE Presidential Court since 2019. In 2019, he was selected as a participant in the first Global Secondment Program for Emirati Leaders by the Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development and was a graduate of the Impactful leader’s program in 2023.

Al Sharhan holds an MSc in Engineering Systems and Management in 2013 from the joint Higher Education program between Masdar Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Masters in Leadership and Innovation from Rochester Institute of Technology in the US, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 2011 from the American University of Sharjah in the UAE.