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| Khuloud Odeh |
| Sr. ICT Advisor, Strategic Sustainability and ICT4D |
| Multinational Development of Women in Technology (MDWIT) |
| kodeh@mdwit.org |
| Phone:+1-301-768-1886 |
| LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kodeh |
| Twitter: @kodeh |
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As a Sr. Advisor to Multinational Development of Women in Technology (MDWIT), a global center of excellence for promoting the advancement of women in technology, Khuloud works with the CEO and the board members in building MDWIT's International Strategy. Khuloud Odeh is an IT Strategist, Systems Thinker and Researcher in the areas of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, Green IT, and gender issues in the technology fields.
For the past five years, she served as the CIO of CHF International, an international development NGO. Through working in the development sector, she got her deeper understanding of sustainable development concepts, and managed to combine two of her greatest passions: the love for innovative use of IT, and the passion for helping people. Prior to CHF, she held several Sr. software engineering and management positions at private and public sector organizations in the Middle East, Canada, and the US.
Ms. Odeh's current focus is specialized in the enabling role of ICT in global sustainability - social and clean technology entrepreneurship, urban development, transportation, energy and buildings.
Khuloud is a PhD candidate at the Volgenau School of IT- George Mason University, and recently received Master's degree in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. She also holds a BS and Master's degrees in computer science. Her PhD research is in sustainability assessment methods of the cloud-computing models vs. conventional ones. Her recent academic projects included a case study of the sustainability initiatives and strategies at Cisco Systems, and a thesis essay on Cisco's Connected Urban Development (CUD) initiative and the strategic role of broadband connectivity in moving urban areas towards sustainable future.
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