Ahmad Jammal
I was the director general of higher education in Lebanon, from 2002 to 2019, and the vice president of the council of higher education. I was in charge of the private higher education sector in Lebanon and of the technical committee and credentials recognition committee.
I was Board member of ANQAHE (Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) & Board member of the Council of Quality Assurance & Accreditation of the Association of Arab Universities.
Also, I am IEEE senior member since 1990 & member of the order of engineers in Lebanon since 1995.
Actually, I am member of the Leadership advisory board of the "Center for Learning Innovations and Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS)", UAE & UK.
I am working on the dissemination of quality assurance in Higher education and the development of procedures, criteria & standards for QA & Accreditation in Lebanon & worldwide.
I participated in the development of guides in this field; also, I had participated as expert member in many Accreditation panels (FIBAA Germany).
I was professor of Power electronics, Electric Machines & Drives at the University Claude Bernard – Lyon I in France from 1988 to 1996, then at the Lebanese University from 1996 to 2002 and still teaching courses in Electric Machines, Power Electronics, AC/DC Drives, Instrumentation, etc.
I worked as research & development engineer at Leroy-Somer Enterprise in France from 1986 to 1988.
I supervised MSc & PhD students and participated in many thesis dissertations in France & Lebanon. I had published more than 80 papers in International scientific journals & conferences.
I am a reviewer in many International Journals (IJEECS Indonesia, IJPEDS, IJECE, Edu-Learn, JEECE, AJEPES USA, IET-EPA UK, CSEE-JPES China) and an editorial board member in some of them.
I obtained:
• The BE in Electrical Engineering in 1982 from Damascus University,
• The (DEA) MSc, from INPG - France in 1984,
• The PhD in Electrical Engineering from Lyon I- in France in 1986,
• And the Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches Scientifique (HDR) from the same university in 1994.