{"id":3556,"date":"2017-01-27T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/?post_type=person&#038;p=3556"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:14:43","slug":"nawaf-abdulrahman","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/person\/nawaf-abdulrahman\/","title":{"rendered":"Nawaf M. Abdulrahman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text:align justify\"><strong>Nawaf M. Abdulrahman<\/strong> is the Head of Information Technology at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkcc.bh\/\">Mohammed bin Khalifa Cardiac Cantre<\/a>. He also holds other several important roles such as Member of the Eminent Expert Grand Jury and Regional Spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsa-global.org\/about-wsa\/\">World Summit Award<\/a>, President of Program Industry Advisory Panel of AMA University, and Member of the Advisory Board in the Applied Science University, University of Bahrain and Bahrain Polytechnic, furthermore, he is the former president of Bahrain Internet Society during the period from 2011 to 2017, and currently he is the General Secretary of Bahrain Smart City Society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text:align justify\">Nawaf is a skilled Information and Communications Technology (ICT) executive with 21 years strong ICT operational and strategic experience. Efficient at aligning ICT objectives and deliverables with corporate goals. Proven ability to manage large scale projects through the complete lifecycle and delivery within time and budget constraints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text:align justify\">Nawaf has an MBA with a focus on Finance and a Bachelor in Information Technology; he is also CISA, ITIL, MCSE and PMP. He worked on many initiatives to the community through Bahrain Internet Society such as Future IT Leaders, eCitizens initiative, Women in Technology initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text:align justify\">During his career Nawaf M. Abdulrahman led the deployment of several complex large-scale projects successfully and has several success stories published by leading organizations such as Microsoft, and won several global awards in the field of leadership and Information Technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text:align justify\"><strong>Personal Notable Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>World CIO 200<\/li>\n<li>Middle East Best 50 CXO Award<\/li>\n<li>Top 50 Tech Leader in the Middle East by IDC<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 Superhero Technology Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11058,"template":"","class_list":["post-3556","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nawaf M. Abdulrahman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nawaf M. 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