Abeer Shaheen

An Executive Leader and Speaker on Women in Sustainability, Energy/Sustainable Built & Real Estate Assets/ Sustainable Master Plans; ESG Responsive Business, leverage an extensive 25 years’ Experience and Expertise Spanning Academia, Applied Research, Private Sector and previously Appointed on an Executive Governmental Position, as an Advisor to His Excellency Minister of Housing for Planning and Development Affairs. I strive to be appointed in a position that I will be able to Execute and Oversees a Large Organizations’ Sustainability Strategy and be in Charge of Raising the Organizations’ Sustainability Profile in the Middle East and Globally. One of my top career Priorities is to Support the UAE in Focusing on Balancing the Requirements of Economic Growth & Limiting the Impact of Climate Change on our Environment and Natural Resources; through Adopting the Green Principles, Innovative Initiatives such as Bio-Technology; Artificial Intelligence AI and De-Carbonization within the Built Environments and Cities; ESG Responsive Circular Economy towards UAE’s Strategic Initiatives of Net Zero by 2050. As one of the pioneers in Sustainable Built Environment Applied-Research, I was awarded the prestigious award “Charter of Gold” by His Majesty the King of Bahrain recognized as the first GCC citizen to hold a full time academic post at Harvard teaching Master Programmes /Urban Studios and continue to hold the post of Visiting Fellow at the world's leading Harvard University's Graduate School of Design since 2005, in addition to being an Academic member of the leading School of Architecture: the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London since 2001, also consulting a number of leading Architecture and Urban Planning Design Firms internationally.

Education

• Bachlor of Science Architectural Engineering United Arab Emirates University (1991 — 1997)
• Sustainable Business Strategy Harvard Business School (2020 — 2020)
• Course MIT Media Lab (2020 — 2020)