Fadi Salem is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Dubai Policy Review and the Director of Policy Research and Advisory at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (formerly Dubai School of Government). He is also a Senior Research Fellow with the Future Government and Innovation Group at the School. Earlier, he was a Research Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS); and a Fellow with the I+I Policy Research Centre, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY SPP), National University of Singapore. He is currently a PhD in Public Policy candidate at the University of Oxford and a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Aleppo University.

Fadi is an internationally recognized authority in digital governance domains, recently selected as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government in 2019 by Apolitical. He also serves as a member of several governance and advisory boards, such as Artificial Intelligence Ethics Advisory Board of Smart Dubai Office, the Digital Government Society Board. His areas of expertise extends to digital governance, technology policy, digital transformation, Govtech, innovation policies, smart cities development; the policy implications of Artificial Intelligence, the 4^th Industrial Revolution, IoT, big data and open government. Additionally he has extensive policy and scholarly publications on social media, electronic participation, ‘future of government’ applications, and the impact of digital transformations in the Arab region, including the influential Arab Social Media Report series and the Arab World Online series.