Dr. Narimane Hadj-Hamou is the Founder and CEO of the Center of Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS). To date, the Center has trained over 11,000 members of the higher education community from 32 countries.
Previously, she served as the Assistant Chancellor for Learning and Academic Development (Provost) at Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University in Dubai, where she established and led the academic, research, and eLearning vision of the first online university to be recognized and accredited by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Narimane’s expertise spans areas such as technology integration and e-learning in higher education, teaching and learning, quality assurance and accreditation, strategy formulation, and governance.
She was listed among the 200 most influential Arab women by Forbes in 2014 and received the Arab Women Award for Education in 2016 and the Influential Education Leaders Award at the University of Cambridge in 2017.