Mohamed Shareef

A digital for sustainable development enthusiast from the Maldives.

Mohamed Shareef is the Director, Government and International Relations at OXIQA Pvt. Ltd., the leading Enterprise Cyber Security & SaaS Solutions Provider in the Maldives. Prior to this, Shareef was the Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology, where he lead the development of the Maldives' National Digital Identity, establishment of the Electronic Transactions legislations amongst many other foundations for digital development.

Shareef was the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Maldives, and serves as the senior most Civil Servant since January 2019 to May 2021. He served on the Governing Board of the Maldives Qualification Authority from 2020 - 2021.

Shareef was the Victor Rector, Academic Development, at the Cyryx College, developing academic quality across its schools and programmes. Shareef was trained by Maldives Qualification Authority for Institutional and Programme Audits and leads the development of college governance, in addition to his coordinating and teaching responsibilities.

From Sept 2008 to Feb 2011, Shareef was a Researcher at the Center for Electronic Governance, United Nations University, International Institute of Software Technology (UNU-IIST) in Macao SAR, China. At UNU-IIST he worked on several international and national level projects including projects for Macau SAR and Afghanistan government and published a number of papers and reports. His research interests included Electronic Government, particularly Strategic Planning and Programming and e-Readiness for Electronic Government.

He was the Chief Information Officer (ClO) at the National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT), Government of Maldives. NCIT is the central organization responsible for developing IT and Electronic Government in the country. Mohamed Shareef has been actively involved in the development of Electronic Government in Maldives since 2003, being engaged in managing the development of the Government Network of Maldives, e-Government Service Platform and a number of e-Government applications.

Shareef also facilitated and conducted workshops and awareness sessions on gender, gender equality, mainstreaming and gender-based planning as a Gender Trainer for the Gender Ministry of the Government of Maldives.

Mohamed Shareef holds a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree from the University of Birmingham, UK.