Dr. Khaled A Mohamed is a professor of library and information technology, Currently, He is the Head of Dubai Digital Library and Knowledge Solutions. He has also served as director of the Digital Library Unit in the Supreme Council of Universities. He held a PhD from university of Pittsburgh, USA, and two master degrees, one from Cairo University, and one from university of Pittsburgh. He has initiated the Egyptian Universities Library Consortium, managing its activities including the Egyptian universities Union Catalog, open access journal publishing, and the Egyptian Digital theses repository. He has participated in the development of the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) as a member in the EKB steering committee. He also was a member of the Egyptian National Committee of ICT and the Egyptian national negotiation team of electronic resources. He has participated in many international publishers’ advisory boards. He has more than 30 publications in the national and international level.

He has been granted the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research award of knowledge management and informatics in 2009 and the Arabian advanced system award in the golf SAL, 2010.