Salem ALSHAFIEI

Director of Policies and Programs, Rights of Persons with Disability at

Dr. Alshafiei is currently an independent senior urban planning advisor and adjunct professor of urban planning at the Master of Urban Planning Program, American University of Sharjah. He obtained his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 2007. He has over 24 years of professional urban planning, design and development experience within the local governments of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. His specific areas of expertise and research interest include transportation planning and policy, sustainable and livable communities, transit-oriented- development, inclusive cities, universal design and urban planning and development governance systems. Year of this biography: 2019

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