Founder of MEENA Academy for Youthwork in the Netherlands, he holds a master's degree in Public Policy and Human Development from the United Nations University MERIT and Maastricht University. He has worked as a youth development consultant with several international NGOs and UN agencies, supported and facilitated several capacity building and train-the-trainer interventions in participation, strategic planning and community-based research in different Arab countries and gained solid knowledge on evaluation and design of policies and programs with quantitative and qualitative methods and life course approach.