Biography:

He 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. 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.

He has authored, coordinated/directed and substantially contributed to several landmark publications and papers as well as regional and international level developmental reports (Director/Coordinator: �Arab Knowledge Report: 2014�Youth and Localization of Knowledge�; �Arab Knowledge Report 2010/2011�Preparing Future Generation for the Knowledge Society�; �Arab Knowledge Repot 2009�Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge�; �Water Governance in the Arab Region� Managing Scarcity and Securing the Future�.

Coordinator of the �Arab Human Development Report 2005�Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World�; and the �Arab Human Development Report 2004�Towards Freedom in the Arab World�; substantially participated in writing AHDRs of 2002 and 2003; and several other socioeconomic/cultural initiatives). He is the author of the first Arab Millennium Development Report 2003; and he supervised, and tangibly contributed to the formulation of several other developmental reports all over the Arab region. He also has publications in socioeconomic/population-environment dynamics. In addition, he is an expert in gaming and simulation.

Ghaith Fariz has a PhD in Planning from the University of Michigan, USA, with the main course of research involving socioeconomic development, socioeconomic environment dynamics, and gaming & simulation for research and training. He is Jordanian.

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