Zeinab El Maadawi is an Associate Academic Officer at the UNU Insitute for Environment and Human Security where she is in charge of conceptualisation, organisation & management of e-learning strategy in addition to research and teaching in the field of educational technologies and management of e-learning-related projects.

She has been featured as a “TechWomen Emerging Leader” by the US Department of State, an “Arab American Frontiers Fellow” by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and a “Leader in Innovation Fellow” by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.