Announcing our new Arab University Rankings advisory board

The THE Arab University Rankings advisory board launches with members from countries across the region

March 27, 2023

Updated 14 December 2023

In January we announced the formation of the Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings advisory board, and we invited applications from across the Arab region. We received a large number of high-quality applications, perhaps unsurprising given that this is the fastest-improving university region in the world. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who took the time to submit an application to help us improve our ranking.

We are very pleased to announce that the Arab University Rankings advisory board has now been created, with nine members from nine different countries, a wide range of experience, and a gender split of five women and four men.

The board members are:

Name

Position

Institution/organisation

Country

Yusra Mouzughi

President

Royal University for Women

Bahrain

Victoria Lindsay

Founding president and vice-chancellor

The British University of Iraq

Iraq

Ola Laurence

Consultant

EKB

Egypt

Maryam Riaz Wattoo

Adviser

Higher Education Affairs at Ministry of Education, UAE

United Arab Emirates

Hanene Boussi

Head of rankings and analysis

University of Tunis El Manar

Tunisia

Georges Yahchouchi

President

American University of the Middle East

Kuwait

Anas Ratib Al-S’oud

Vice-president

Al Ahliyya Amman University

Jordan

Ahmed Alkuwaiti

Associate professor, consultant and supervisor general – deanship of quality and academic accreditation

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Saudi Arabia

David Watkins

Managing director of data science

Times Higher Education

UK

Loubaba El Wazir

AUR product owner

Times Higher Education

Lebanon

The creation of the advisory board is an important part of our commitment to widen the transparency of our approach – as we’ve seen with our Impact Rankings advisory board and our World University Rankings advisory board.

The board will meet four times a year, including at least one in-person event, and THE will assist the members with information and administrative support.

The Arab University Rankings were created in 2021 to support the rapid growth in the quantity and quality of universities in the Arab region. In the 2021 ranking 125 universities were ranked, plus 30 reporter institutions; the 2022 ranking sees 169 universities ranked, with a further 48 reporters.

David Watkins is managing director of data science at Times Higher Education.

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