holds a BSc Degree with honors in Agro-industries from California State University, an MSc degree in Dairy Technology from the University of Wyoming and a PhD in Food Technology & Nutrition from The Ohio State University, USA. He worked as a research scientist at the Ohio Research Center and later as Project Leader and Manager of the Biotechnology Department at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research. He served a Professor and Director of the Agricultural Research Center at the Jordan University for Science and Technology and as a Senior Regional Agro-industries & Technology Officer at the FAO Regional Office in Cairo, Egypt. He is the author of over 60 scientific publications, the editor of five books and holds one US Patent on the “Process and Microorganisms for Producing Single-Cell-Protein”. He has also served as a member on the editorial board of six scientific international journals. In 2004, he took an appointment as the Executive S