Dr. Hosni Ghedira is presently a Professor of Practice at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world’s first graduate-level research-based AI university. He earned his MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) in 1997 and his PhD in Water Sciences from the University of Quebec (Canada) in 2001. 

Prior to his current role at MBZUAI, Dr. Ghedira served as Director of the Research Centre for Renewable Energy Mapping and Assessment at Masdar Institute (2010-2020). 

Before relocating to the UAE, he was a faculty member at the City University of New York for six years and founded the Environmental Remote Sensing and Image Processing Laboratory at the NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science & Technology Center in New York. 

Dr. Ghedira has 25 years of rich and progressively responsible experience in diverse sectors of Energy, Environment, Water, Innovation and Climate. 

He is an active member in several regional and international working groups in the field of clean energy, space technologies, water security and environmental monitoring. 

Dr. Ghedira has participated in several studies with international organizations (UN-ESCWA, World Bank, IRENA, AfDB) on clean energy, water security and water-energy nexus. 

Dr. Ghedira was nominated in January 2019 by Solar Quarter Magazine in the list of Most Influential Solar Business Leaders in The MENA PV Market. 

He was nominated in January 2018 as a member of Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (MBRAS).