Professor Dr. Samy Sidky, Ph.D., MSc., MBA
Prof. Dr. Samy Sidky worked as an Academic Advisor at Zayed University (ZU); Institutional Research and Accreditation Expert at the Canadian University of Dubai (CUD); Chairman of Academic Advisory Board at the European International College (EIC); Chairman of Business development Advisory Board at Al Dar University College (AUC) and BOT Vice- chair at European University College (EUC).
Prof. Sidky started his career in academia, and has also more than 30 years in business, industrial and information technology fields. He was the founder and CEO of Multi Media Egypt, one of the largest software technology and CD replication facilities in the Middle East 1995, Vice president of Sigma for Consulting & Training 2005, Founder of STEM Academy 2012 and President of Commission on STEM & STEAM Accreditation 2017.
Prof. Sidky returned back to the Academia as Founding President of EUC, and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Academic Affairs (Provost) at Emirates Aviation College (EAC) in Dubai. In addition to being the Principal Investigator for several & funded research projects amounting to more than $72 million dollars, Dr. Sidky is well published in the area of Business Administration, Accounting, and Institutional Effectiveness using Balance Score Cards.
Prof. Sidky started his career in academia, and has also more than 10 years in business, industrial and information technology fields. He was the founder and CEO of Multi Media Egypt, one of the largest software technology and CD replication facilities in the Middle East 1995, Vice president of Sigma for Consulting & Training 2005, Founder of STEM Academy 2012 and Partner of Commission on STEM & STEAM Accreditation 2017.
Prof. Sidky returned back to the Academia as Founding President of EUC, and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Academic Affairs (Provost) at Emirates Aviation College (EAC) in Dubai. In addition to being the Principal Investigator for several & funded research projects amounting to more than $72 million dollars, Dr. Sidky is well published in the area of Business Administration, Accounting, and Institutional Effectiveness using Balance Score Cards.
Prof. Dr. Samy Sidky advises numerous academic organizations and supporting them in developing strategic plans in alignment with their vision and mission. Simultaneously, he designs and develops academic programs to expand and diversify colleges and universities educational offering, according to their strategic roadmap ensuring compliance with various national and international accrediting bodies. For instance, Dr. Sidky coached several consultancy workshops and conducted mock surveys for the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS), worked with CDC-WHO in HIV Epidemiology information systems (Epi-Info).In addition to his diversified experiences Prof. Sidky is a certified Safety Trainer from OSHA & NSC.
As relevant projects Dr. Sidky was the Chief consultant for developing 2014 Strategic plan and KPIs for the College of Banking and Financial studies, Muscat, Oman. he also was the Project Manager for developing a Strategic Directions and Execution Plan for 2016-2019 at Zayed University, UAE. Dr. Sidky is also a founder, fellow and member of several professional and scholastic associations & societies in Management Science, Accounting and Technology fields.
In responding to US President Obama’s Initiative on education excellence 2012 and the 100Kin10 (the networked effort of 200 partners to train and retain 100,000 excellent STEM teachers to educate the next generation of innovators and problem solvers by 2021, Prof. Sidky is one of the founders of (Commission on STEM & STEAM Accreditation -CSSA) as non-profit Corporation will develop standards to be used for accrediting STEM & STEAM educational training programs and to certify STEM & STEAM instructors, tools and labs.