Dr Hanan Gouda has a PhD in inter-cultural Management from University of Aix en Provence, France. Dr. Gouda is currently the Dean of the Arab Institute for Leadership Development at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. In addition, she is an associate professor at the College of Management & Technology. She is a lecturer in various subjects under the umbrella of Strategic Management and Leadership. In the preceding years, She was an advisor to Minister of Education in Egypt she worked as ATER (temporary attaché for instruction and research) Department of ABTHIS-UFR/ERLAOS Aix en Provence University France and as an Educational international assistant at Department of International Negotiation. Her publications focus on behavioral sciences covering various field as the leadership, training in the workplace, the impact of conflicts in the institutions, the Generation Y, intercultural management, internationalization, youth & women empowerment.