Mission

Fadi holds the responsibilities of Deputy Director at EPFL Middle East in UAE. In addition to managing the day-to-day operations, his current main mission is to help EPFL Master students to find and successfully conduct internships and/or master projects in the UAE market.

Biographie

Fadi is a strategic management professional with over 20 years of experience. His work concentrates on advising companies and educational institutes on how to adapt to the 21st century complexity and how to overcome its disruptive nature by adopting innovative processes and technologies. Throughout his career, he assumed roles in academia, R&D, product management, marketing and business development, project management, operations and strategic management.
For the last three years, he has been developing advisory solutions for strategic management, where he has advised several CEO’s on how to strategically transform, navigate disruption, and succeed in the future through i) adopting fit-for-purpose strategies and ii) changing the mindsets on how strategic change should be done and by whom.
In addition to his PhD at the EPFL in Engineering (ENAC/TOPO) in 2006, Fadi holds an MBA (2019) at Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK) with specialization in Strategic Management, two master engineering degrees from Greece (1999) and Canada (2002), an Executive Development at INSEAD (2017), and Construction Management at Columbia University (2017).