Dr. Saleem Zoughbi is a senior advisor for Information and Communication Technology (ICT). He has been providing technical assistance and advisory services to over 50 developing countries. He focused on development and has been assisting governments on the strategic and policy levels on e‐governance, smart cities, national strategies and ICT development. He worked for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (UN ESCWA). This included special technical advice in different applications such as the evaluation of national policies and strategies, evaluation of IT departments within a CIO approach that includes business and process re‐engineering, change management, planning and evaluation in e‐government and e‐governance, databases, data centers and others. He also was a senior resource person in ESCAP form digital capacity building.