Dr. Hourani has PhD in Strategic Planning from USA, a Certified Professional Consultant (CPC)-USA, and a Certified Trainer–UK. entrepreneur and innovative thinker by nature, business management specialist by education, and business developer by practice and learning. Fluent in Arabic and English, and had a cross cultural background as a result of working with tens of nationalities worldwide.

As a senior strategist, Dr. Hourani worked for more than 30 years as a management and business director, consultant, instructor, translator and portfolio manager. He worked for major organizations all over the world like ETN-Holland, TUV-Germany, Swissquote Bank-Switzerland, M.M. Corporation-Japan, PADICO-Palestine, SABIC-Saudi Arabia, QP-Qatar, EDB-Bahrain, ADNOC-UAE, Bureau Veritas-UAE, Haward Technology-UAE, and several Universities in Gulf Region. He was the General Manager of TUV Akademie Middle East, and handled business development projects and strategic planning for major bodies like Abu Dhabi Municipality, Abu Dhabi Police, Al Riyadh Regional Municipality, and RTP NGO.

Dr. Hourani translated or edited more than 40 books in economics, management, education & politics. Dr. Hourani also is a member of several Management and Business bodies such as PMI,AMA and Smart Cities Council-USA, Currently, he is the General Manager of Cambridge Management Technology; a consulting and development house.

As a renowned speaker, he is a visiting lecturer/trainer and an Affiliate of Cambridge Int’l College-UK, in addition to lecturing for Abu Dhabi University, American University of RAK, University of Sharjah, Emirates Institute for Banking, and some other consulting and training, governmental & NGOs institutions worldwide.

Dr. Hourani believes that the collective knowledge, experience, innovation of the people should empower the organization. Team work, knowledge sharing, business ethics, and organizational development are a subset of his commandments. He is greatly satisfied when he brings happiness to people, learn something new, add great value to the organization, and have a satisfied customer.