Mohamed Shareef

A digital for sustainable development enthusiast working to increase the role of IT in national development of the Maldives.

Mohamed Shareef is Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology.

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, including a journal article, 7 conference papers, 2 toolkits, 4 technical reports, 3 courseware and 2 software tools. 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. He was also central to the development, implementation and continued operation of the quality management system at NCIT and subsequent ISO 9001:2008 certification.

Shareef also facilitates and conducts seminars, 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 and the NGO Hope for Women.

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