Vice Presidents
Dr. Khalid Al-Khater holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from QU, an MBA in Accounting from Saint Louis University and a Ph.D. in Accounting from Dundee University. He began his career at QU as Acting Dean of the College of Business and Economics (CBE) from 2003 to 2005, and as Director of CBE’s MBA program from 2003 to 2005 and Vice Dean of the College from 2000 to 2005. He is currently the Dean of Academic Affairs at Ahmed bin Mohamed Military College. He received the State Incentive Award in the field of accounting in 2012.
Dr. Al-Khater’s research focuses on accounting development in Qatar and he conducts seminars and workshops on a variety of accounting topics and education. He is member of many committees at QU, and in professional accounting associations such as the Qatari Association of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, Scientific Accounting Association, and the GCC Accounting & Auditing Organization.
Dr. Khalid Al-Khater
Contact Information:
E-mail: vpadmin@qu.edu.qa
Dr. Omar Al-Ansari was admitted to the College of Engineering at Qatar University and obtained his BS in Civil Engineering in 1990. He was appointed as Teaching Assistant at the Department of Civil Engineering and was granted the state scholarship to pursue his graduate education in the USA. He successfully gained his Master and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1999. Upon his return to Qatar University, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Qatar University. Dr. Al-Ansari held a number of administrative positions after his return from the USA to re-joined Qatar University.
From 2001-2003 he was Coordinator of for the College of Engineering Foundation year. In 2003 he was appointed as Dean for Students Affairs, a sector that he lead as Associate Vice President from 2004-2007. In 2007 he was appointed as Vice President for Student Affairs, a position that he had held until 2015, in this capacity he was responsible for the general supervision of all student initiatives at Qatar University, including admission, registration and academic records, student advising, student life, campus activities, student academic support and related student services.
Having been an active member of the university reform and long serving member of the University Executive Management Committee in addition to other strategic and standing university committees and leading number of Qatar University strategic Initiatives during the last 16 years, he was appointed in 2017 as Vice President for Academic Affairs. In his new position, Dr. Al-Ansari is responsible for the administration and upholding of the colleges, departments, academic programs, college research centers, academic units, office of Faculty Instructional Development and Libraries. He leads and oversees the implementation of the University Teaching and Learning Strategy and works closely and collaborates with other VPs to ensure achievement of Qatar University vision, mission, strategic goals and Key Performance Indicators.
Dr. Omar Al-Ansari
Contact Information:
E-mail: vpacademic@qu.edu.qa
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Dr. Khalid Mohamed Al-Khanji held the position of Vice President for Student Affairs in 2015. Dr. Al-Khanji holds a bachelor’s degree in Education from QU, a master’s degree in Counseling and Human Resource Development from University of Colorado at Denver, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Temple University, as well as an MBA from London Business School.
Dr. Khalid Mohamed Al-Khanji
Contact Information:
E-mail: khalidmf@qu.edu.qa
phone: (+974) 4403-3703
Prof. Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed was the Director of QU Center for Advanced Materials and Founder Coordinator of QU master’s program in Materials Science and Technology. She received a Ph.D. in Physics (Materials Science) from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 2001, and joined QU Department of Physics in the same year. Prof. Al-Maadeed has a huge experience and international recognition in the field of polymers and characterization, as well as in the field of nanocomposites technologies, and nanotechnology expertise. She published more than 120 research papers in international journals and conferences, in addition to a series of book chapters, books and patents. Prof. Al-Maadeed received many research grants, and she is the lead principal investigator in several projects with a number of universities and institutions around the world. She also worked as a reviewer for many scientific journals and conferences.
Prof Al-Maadeed taught several courses at the graduate and postgraduate level in addition to supervising many graduate dissertations at QU and other international universities. She provided consultancy and presented several workshops for a variety of organizations throughout industry, ministries and society, and chaired several conferences. She is member of distinguished associations in the field of science and administration.
Among the awards she received: the State Prize in Physics (2010), the Plastic Excellence Award from the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (2014), and the Leadership Excellence Award for Women from the Conference and Exhibition of Engineering for the Middle East (2015). She is also a leading member of the Albairaq team, having won the World Innovation Summit for Education Award (WISE) in 2015.
Prof. Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed
Contact information:
E-mail: m.alali@qu.edu.qa
Dr. Egon Toft brings to QU valuable experience in the establishment and leadership of medical colleges. He held the position of Founding Dean of the College of Medicine at Aalborg University from 2010 to 2014 (the newest medical school in Denmark). He was also Associate Dean at the College of Engineering, Science and Medicine at the same university, where he established the Medicine track with Industrial Specialization (2006), Sports Science program (2007), and a Master of Clinical Science and Technology program (2008).
He played a leadership role in Aalborg University Hospital since 1996, most importantly as the Head of the Research School in Health Technology. As Founding Dean, he established a case-based bachelor’s degree program with an integrated curriculum and clinical placements beginning from the first semester, and a case-based, problem-based 3-year master’s degree program.
Dr. Toft is a qualified specialist in cardiology (1994) and also holds a Ph.D. (Dr Med Sci, 1995) from Copenhagen University.
Dr. Egon Toft
Contact Information:
E-mail: egon.toft@qu.edu.qa
Dr. Darwish Al-Emadi’s career in higher education spans over three decades, spent mostly at QU in a variety of academic leadership positions.
After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1986, Dr. Al-Emadi was appointed Assistant Professor (1986) and subsequently Associate Professor (1992) in the Department of English and Modern European Languages.
During that time, Dr. Al-Emadi also assumed a number of senior academic leadership roles at QU, including Vice Dean (1992–2000) and Dean (1995–2000) of the College of Science and Humanities, and Dean of the Graduate School (2000–2003). It was during his tenure that the first graduate program -- Master in Business Administration (MBA) -- was launched at QU in 2002. In 2008, Dr. Al-Emadi became the founding Director of QU Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, a thriving research center with a mandate to conduct high-quality academic surveys in areas of interest to the Qatari society. In 2014, he assumed the position of Associate Vice President for Research Operations, overseeing the operation of five research centers. In 2015, he was appointed as Acting Vice President for Research at QU.
Beyond QU, Dr. Al-Emadi was the Director of the Education Institute at the then-newly established Supreme Education Council between 2003 and 2004, where his tenure saw the growth of the Education Institute into a 200 employee-strong organization with several departments.
Dr. Al-Emadi’s research interests, publications, and conference presentations reflect his interest in sociolinguistics, and more recently in the area of survey research. He is currently the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Values Survey Association, and a member of the scientific advisory committees of the Arab Barometer initiative and the European University Institute.
