Ahmad is on study leave for the duration of his PhD starting from April 2018. He currently holds a position as an Information Analyst in IT projects division at the Ministry of Information in Kuwait. He previously worked as a specialist in HR management systems as an HR analytics and IT applications specialist in the Kuwaiti oil industry. He also worked as a Kuwait regional manager for a major custom web development company based in Dubai.

With over nine years of work experience, he has developed a special interest in the field of knowledge and information management as a premise for organisations to develop their capabilities and technology alignment efforts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait (2007)
• Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Kuwait University, with distinction (2016)
• Currently pursuing a PhD in Information Management in Loughborough University

Research interests:

• Knowledge management
• Information management/science
• Absorptive capacity
• Capability-based view of the firm
• Dynamic capabilities
• Microfoundations of capabilities in strategic management

Supervisors: 

Dr Gillian Ragsdell and Prof Mathew Hughes

Dissertation working title:

Microfoundations of Internal Absorptive Capacity in an Information Management Process.