Professor Allam Ahmed (Founding President WASD) UK

Professor Ahmed main areas of research focus on: (a) the role of science, technology and innovation in achieving sustainable development (SD) with topics relating to public health; nutrition and food; digital transformation (DT); knowledge management (KM); Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Data Science (DS) and (b) globalisation and competitiveness. This covers topics relating to strategic management; leadership; government macroeconomic and public policies; entrepreneurship; marketing and commercialisation of technological products and innovation; knowledge and technology transfer and management; productivity gap analysis and modeling; SD; industry and sustainability; and achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Professor Ahmed published widely covering various disciplines and have produced more than 120 publications, including 39 books and numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals, books, conferences proceedings and working papers all rated as world-leading and internationally recognised. The common factor in these and my other published studies is the adoption of a critical perspective on contemporary science, technology, innovation and sustainability issues, attention to detailed empirical evidence to support or refute arguments, and an effort to suggest practical policy conclusions, targeted at specific government bodies or international agencies. Some of the examples of Professor Ahmed intellectual contribution are perhaps best illustrated by the following:

• “The European Union as a Model of International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Sustainable Development”, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9(4), 654-669, Blackwell, UK (2007) is cited in two major international reports: first the article is reviewed as one of the key documents consulted for a scoping study commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on behalf of the International Forum of Research Donors for Development (IFORD), to provide an overview of donor support for research capacity building in Africa for its next five-year research strategy and 20-year Vision of development for poverty reduction; and secondly the article is cited in the Final Report by DG Research of the European Commission, in the context of the follow-up to the Green Paper “The European Research Area: New Perspectives” adopted by the Commission on 04 April 2007. In this article we assessed European Union (EU) research policy as a stable, long-term form of organising international science and technology co-operation, and evaluated the prospects for transposing this model to co-operation with non-European DCs in the context of Sustainable Development. The article shows that the EU often neglects the capabilities for change within DCs. The European approach combines scientific objectives with common political, social, economic, and environmental aims through a form of partnership based on dynamism, collective decision-making, and the distribution of research responsibility. It is argued that the prevailing character of co-operation between Europe and DCs, which stresses the transfer of resources, does not adequately recognise the knowledge, capacity for innovation and valuable socio-cultural assets of partners within the DCs which will be essential to build the partnerships needed to sustain progress in this area.
• Professor Ahmed books archived by the top universities across the world such as Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton; Yale; etc and his book "Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century" is almost in every university in the world.
• "The 13 Key Performance Indicators for Highly Effective Teams" is highly recommended by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) as a source of information on key performance indicators.
• “A Review of Learning Theories and Models Underpinning Technology-Enhanced Learning Artefacts”, won an award for Outstanding Paper in the 2021 Emerald Literati Awards.
• “Challenges of Agricultural Technology Transfer and Productivity Increase in the Sudan”, included among “The Top 300” list of most used – downloaded articles by Inderscience.

Please check full list of Professor Ahmed's publications here.

Professor Ahmed is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of 10 international refereed journals including the World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development; World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development; International Journal of Food, Nutrition and Public Health (IJFNPH); International Journal of Innovation and Knowledge Management in Middle East and North Africa; International Journal of Sudan Research, etc. He is also the Editor Book Series: World Sustainable Development Outlook; Globalization, Technology and Sustainable Development; Middle East & North Africa; and Palgrave Studies of Sustainable Business in Africa.