Dr Zeenath Reza Khan

Biography

Dr Zeenath Reza Khan has been teaching in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai since 2001. An advocate for girls’ education and a champion of women and girls in STEM and founding managing director of the Women and girls foundation in Bangladesh, Dr Khan’s research interests are in community informatics, ethics in IT and education and STEM for girls. Dr Khan is the founding chairperson of numerous STEM educational initiatives such as Mathalon, Envirotalk Youth Earth Summit, Women in Educational Leadership Summit, Tech-G STEAM Summer/Winter Camp for Girls and so much more.
Fellow of Wollongong Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence (WATTLE), Dr Khan is a national and international award-winning academic with more than 60 publications to her name. Considered a Tier one speaker, She has won the Vice Chancellor’s OCTAL award from UOW in 2016, Turnitin Global Innovation Award 2015, Teaching Excellence Award from UOWD in 2014, among others. Recently she was named among UAE’s 10 most influential educational leaders 2019 by The Knowledge Review, won the Digital Leader Award in Education category from Khaleej Times and MIT Sloan Mgt Review’s Digital Leaders Forum, 2019 and was named 2020 Global Educational Influencer by The Excelligent.
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