Abdulhamied Alromaithy

Affiliation

Culture Arabia, United Arab Emirates

During the ACS Summer Institute 2011, Abdulhamied Alromaithy will organize a seminar entitled: Nose to Nose: Insights to the Culture of Arabia

About

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. He 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. Since then, 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.

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.