Mehrdad Mohasses

Director of Centre for Teaching and Learning at Amity University Dubai

Mehrdad (Mo) Mohasses has more than 30 years of experience in higher education in Canada and the UAE. He is the Director of Centre for Teaching and Learning but prior to that, served as the Acting Dean of the Amity School of Business and worked for 20 years for the Higher Colleges of Technology, where he held different positions including the Head of Academic Operations, the Associate Dean of Quality Assurance, and the Chair of Information Technology and Business.

His professional experience in Canada includes working for the Toronto Board of Education, George Brown College, and DeVry University. Mo has a Master of Education (Training and Development) from the University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, Australia as well as an MBA and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario. He is presently a Ph.D. candidate and his dissertation title is “Developing a competency framework to prepare higher education graduates for Industry 4.0”.