CEOQueen Rania Foundation
Nafez is founding CEO of the Queen Rania Foundation London office where he oversees the foundations strategic partnerships and talent development. Nafez is also Executive Chairman and co-founder of Edraak.org, an Arabic online education portal that reaches well over 1.5 million learners across the MENA region. An initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation, Edraak’s learners come from all across the region and include disadvantaged youth in Gaza, Syria, and Iraq. Edraak has played a pivotal role in the setup of other open learning platforms across the region. Nafez was recognized for his work at Edraak as one of the top 50 “Makers+Shakers” in education technology globally by the EdtechXGlobal and the World Innovation Summit in Education (WISE) in 2016.
Previously, Nafez was a strategy consultant working with different governments across the GCC, focusing on education to employment transitions. Nafez writes on education reform and technology regularly in Arabic and English publications. While at Yale he completed a yearlong, award-winning, thesis on the Obstacles towards Curriculum Reform in the Middle East, using Jordan and the UAE as case studies, of which the Mohammed Bin Rashed School of Government published an executive summary.