{"id":2,"date":"2016-05-26T05:34:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T05:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ded3aga\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T07:06:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ded3aga\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”44″ img_size=”400×513″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Ahmed A. Al-Emadi<\/strong> is a Professor of Sport Management. He served as the Dean of
\nCollege of Education at Qatar University from 2016 to 2022. He has extensive teaching
\nexperience of over 25 years and has taught a variety of courses at university level. In
\naddition, he has wide administrative experience of serving in various university
\ncommittees. He has also served as a consultant to the President of the International Council
\nfor Health Physical Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (ICHPER.SD), Board
\nmember of Qatar Olympic Academy and Chair of the Board of consultants at ASPIRE
\nAcademy, Board Member, Qatar Anti-Doping Commission and the Event Manager of the
\nInternational Society for Sports Sciences in the Arab World (13SAW). He also played as a
\nhandball player for more than 10 seasons with AL Arabi Sports club and Qatar National
\nHandball Teams and was a Secretary general for Qatar Handball Federation from 1995-
\n1996. Prof. Al-Emadi is an active member of many different professional health and sports
\norganisations, at both national and international levels, including the Society of Health and
\nPhysical Educators (SHAPE), the North American Society for Sports Management
\n(NASSM), Member, International Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Dance and
\nSport (IAHPEDS), the Pan-Asian Society of Sport & PE (PASSPE), the American
\nAssociation for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and the World Association for Public
\nOpinion Research (WAPOR). His research interests cover a wide range of areas, such as
\nSports Management, Sports Tourism, Sports Governance, Sports Marketing and Mental
\nTraining and he has published many articles in the areas of sports management, leadership
\nin sport, and sports marketing. He published three books titled \u201cLeadership in Sport (2014),
\nRestructuring Professional Sports Clubs in the Arab World (2018),\u201d and \u201cBusiness and
\ngovernance of football in Qatar (2018).\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″]