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Dr. Abdulhamied Alromaithy
Born in Abu Dhabi, Dr. Abdulhamied Alromaithy is one of very few UAE Nationals who have attained high level of professional acknowledgement on national, regional and international levels. With over 34 years of work experience, he has gained the respect and recognition as a management consultant and HR expert in the region.
 
 
Abdulhamied started his work career as an economic researcher with the Abu Dhabi Fund for Arab Economic Development in 1972. Two years later he was granted a scholarship to the US to obtain his MBA and to be appointed later as the administration director with the same government agency. In 1978, he joined the UAE University as a faculty member with the School of Business Administration. He went to the US again to obtain his doctoral degree in Human Resource Development and to return to the university teaching a number of business and management courses i.e. introduction to business, marketing, managing financial institutions, entrepreneurship etc.
 
 
The year 1983 was a landmark in his career when he left the university to start his own management and training company to be the first UAE national management consultant and trainer.
 
 
Over the past 24 years, Dr. Alromaithy has become a key player and a well known professional in the area of HR, management consulting and training. He has designed, organized and implemented a very large number of training programs for leading organizations in the Gulf region. He has served as a retained consultant for a wide range of organizations in the public and private sectors in the UAE including the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, ADCO, ADGAS, GASCO, Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council, etc.
 
 
Abdulhamied has lived, worked and lectured in many countries including US, Australia, Malaysia, France, India, Tunisia, UK, Malta, Philippine, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, Syria, Thailand, Canada, Brazil and Ireland. He received his elementary education from Saudi Arabia, his secondary from Bahrain and his university degree from Kuwait.
 
 
He has published many articles and spoke at numerous professional conferences in UAE, Bahrain, USA, Ireland, Canada, Malaysia, India etc. He has published three books and working on two more.
 
 
» How to find your first job - [ in Arabic in 2004 ]
» How to make them say you've got the job - [ in English 2006 ]
» How to start you own business - [ in Arabic 2006 ]
» Working and living in the Gulf - [ in English May 2007 ]
» To John with Love (tentative title) - [ in English August 2007 ]
 
 
Over the last ten years his work has focused on three main areas; intercultural training, HR consultancy and training and microfinance. He has pioneered the design and implementation of many successful training and development projects and schemes in the UAE.
 
 
Currently, Abdulhamied is a freelance consultant/trainer. He is also a retained consultant for a number of organizations, a founder member of the Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) Middle East and adjunct faculty with a local college in the UAE.