Khaled Alawadi is the first UAE national scholar to specialize in the design of sustainable cities, Dr. Alawadi is Associate Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at Khalifa University, where he founded the MSc. in Sustainable Critical Infrastructure program. He is a trained architect, planner and urban designer whose research is devoted to urban design, housing and urbanism, especially the relationships between the built environment and sustainable development.
Dr. Alawadi recently served as Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism in 2016, and previously worked as an architect for Dubai Municipality and as an Assistant Professor at UAE University. He holds a PhD in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin. And he has curated the National Pavilion UAE which presented Lifescapes Beyond Bigness, an exhibition exploring human-scale architectural landscapes, at the 2018 La Biennale di Venezia, or Venice Biennale. Dr. Alawadi served as a planning expert in the Supreme Committee for Urban Planning in Dubai. He is also a founding and a board member of Emirates Urban Planning Association. Dr. Alawadi's current research interests address and generate theoretical and analytical debates of timely and relevant topics of urban form, transportation, and sustainable development in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the rapidly evolving cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
