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Computer
- Microsoft Windows API, MFC, C++, CORBA, ASP, SQL
- Rational ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe
- Excel, VBA prototypes and migration into C++
- Front end GUI development, ACTIVEX controls, 3rd party components
- Web design and development
- Languages
- Fluent French, Arabic and English, working knowledge of German
- Affiliations
- Member of the Australian Mathematical Society
- Member of the American Risk and Insurance Association
- Member of the American Finance Association
- Member of the editorial board of Emerging Markets Review, an Elsevier journal
- Occasional reviewer of journal papers including the journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and the journal of Applied Mathematical Finance, journal of Risk and Insurance and reviewer of PhD theses (Financial Integrity Research Network, Australia).
- Past activities
- Ex-member of ISF (Engineers without borders)
Meeting chairman working on a water drilling project in Bango, village in Cameroon (West Africa). Supervised the water supply project. We organized meetings with Cameroonian immigrants and partners, brought solutions to technical problems regarding supplying villages with potable water, found appropriate equipment to diagnose the present water network, to fix it and eventually to expand it according to local needs, organized missions in Cameroon to educate villagers and help them to take over the project. The project was successful, and is still running. Organized fund raising events to finance a mission in Cameroon. (African party, African play with large attendance)
- Ex-Member of the ENSIMAG Investment club
Buying and selling shares in the French stock market
- Ex-Member of UNSW water-ski and rowing clubs
- Poetry: have many poems written in both arabic and french in several themes.
- Calligraphy: many works in arabic calligraphy, specialized in Al-Farissi and Athuluth types.
- Literature & Oriental civilizations