About

I’m an apsiring data scientist, experienced with Python and R programming. I specialize in machine learning techniques, and data wrangling. I love working on projects together, so feel free to reach out for collaboration!

Hamad Al Ibrahim is a policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Prior to joining Pardee RAND, he was the executive vice president for Research and Development at Qatar Foundation.

A passionate advocate for a knowledge-based economy, Al Ibrahim created a unified, evidence-based R&D policy at the national level while at the foundation. Using his experience in managing data sets and building systems to help planning and evaluating organizations, but also his experience as a surgeon, he approached R&D from a multidisciplinary perspective, involving the stakeholders in critical decision making. He created new funding mechanisms promoting public-private consortiums and incentivized local, private industry to get involved in co-funding research and partnering with academia.

As chairman of Qatar Science and Technology Park, Al Ibrahim broadened the financial support mechanisms for startups in Qatar and directly introduced Qatar’s business environment to U.S. startups. He used the uncertainties related to the creation of new startups in Qatar as windows of opportunity to diversify the economy and strengthen Qatar’s path toward a sustainable economy.

Al Ibrahim has an L.R.C.P. and S.IM., M.B. B.Ch. from Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, and an Executive MBA from HEC Paris. His research interests include science, technology, and innovation policies; small advanced economies; entrepreneurship; knowledge economies; research impact evaluation.