Dr. Arsalan Safari is currently an associate professor in Qatar University. His research as well as his teaching interests include innovation, entrepreneurship, operations management and business financing. He has recently completed his postdoctoral program at MIT, Sociotechnical Systems Research Center in USA where he focused on innovation, enterprise architecture and transformation. He received his Ph.D. in management (management of technology) at the University of Waterloo, Canada and his master of engineering in design and manufacturing from the University of Western Ontario (Western University), Canada. He holds a bachelor of sciences in industrial engineering, and he is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt from American Society for Quality (ASQ). Dr. Safari worked for nearly six years in the banking industry in senior levels in Canada. He has published various journal papers in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals in relevant fields.