{"id":47140,"date":"2023-08-15T18:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?p=47140"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:30:50","slug":"strategic-changes-at-didi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/strategic-changes-at-didi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Strategic&#8221; changes at DIDI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/amirzeid-deanofdubaiinstituteofdesignandinnovation-jpg-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47144\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation has promoted Hani Asfour to the new position of Vice President \u2013 Innovation and Institutional Partnerships. He\u2019s replaced as DIDI\u2019s Dean by Dr Amir Zeid (right), formerly the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at The American University of Kuwait.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is all part of a plan to build up DIDI\u2019s research and development arm through public and private partnerships. In his new role Hani Asfour, who was among the founding members of DIDI, will be working to build such strategic partnerships with key government, public and private stakeholders. As he said, \u201cDIDI is growing fast, and its leadership must remain agile and responsive to the needs of the school and students. Our goal now is to strengthen DIDI\u2019s network and offerings with strategic partnerships that reflect our university\u2019s commitment to preparing students for the future of work\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Zeid brings withn him more than two decades of experience in academia, research and software engineering. He said he was \u201cthrilled\u201d to join DIDI, which \u201crepresents the bright future of higher education in a digitally dependent world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation has promoted Hani Asfour to the new position of Vice President \u2013 Innovation and Institutional Partnerships. He\u2019s replaced as DIDI\u2019s Dean by Dr Amir Zeid (right), formerly the Founding Dean of the College of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/strategic-changes-at-didi\/\" title=\"&#8220;Strategic&#8221; changes at DIDI\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-design","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}