H.E. Eng. Mohamed Almansoori

H.E. Eng. Mohamed Almansoori

Director General, Sheikh Zayed Housing Program, Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (UAE)

His Excellency Eng. Mohammed Ibrahim Al Mansoori, the Director General of Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme UAE. With over 29 years of professional experience in the Federal Government and directing major urbanization, human settlements, infrastructure, and government housing within UAE and regionally. Almansoori now, in addition to leading the government housing of the UAE via the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme, is the global representative of the sector. HE Al Mansoori An alumnus of Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA. is known as strategic visionary and objective driven leader. Beyond his background in Mega urbanization and housing projects, Almansoori was of the pioneers in leading 100% digitalizing Gov. Operations in housing and infrastructure sector, which secured & facilitated business continuity during COVID pandemic. He led delivering major sector housing development initiatives to enhance the local housing experience/services by optimizing governmental resources such as launching innovative housing financial initiatives to secure sustainable fund resources in cooperation with private banking sector and reducing government housing end-user journey in parallel to a major customer satisfaction increment achieved more than 92% in 2022. He played a key role in drafting and issuing the Planning Guide for Vital Residential Communities 2018, a collaborative effort of the National Program of Happiness and Wellbeing. His achievement was a result of his previous history of handling federal government MEGA projects and housing in all over UAE (2008-2020) as the CEO and undersecretary at SZHP and Ministry of Public Works, where he established and developed the residential neighbourhood model in accordance with international principles and sustainability standards (LEED & PEARLS). Along with number of strategic designations. Regionally Almansoori represented UAE in GCC, Arab League and UN-Habitat and several strategic bilateral international collaborations. Almansoori adopted and launched several academic, youth-focused initiatives, including promoting university student's innovative ideas and fostering sustainable project research toward achieving SDGs. Moreover, HE AL Mansoori have been member Board of Directors at number of major companies in the private sector, as well as a member of engineering societies locally & internationally & the first Arabic CEO in government to be member of the Arab Engineers Federation 2019. He has been honoured and awarded by numerous public and private entities.