Professor Sa'ad Medhat is the Chief Executive of the New Engineering Foundation (NEF), an educational grant awarding charity and think-tank that supports the development of Vocational Education and Knowledge and Technology Transfer in science, engineering and technology - especially in Further Education. NEF’s programmes in new and emerging technologies have so far impacted over 140,000 post-16 learners. NEF’s research work has also resulted in policy reforms and improvements.

Sa’ad is a Governor at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, a Trustee at Reading College and Vice Chairman of the Accredited Skills for Industry Awarding Board. He is also a Visiting Professor to Bournemouth University and a member of the Parliamentary and Science Committee, a Board Member of Foundation Degree Forward and a Director of a number of Technology SMEs.

Sa’ad is a and held a number of senior industrial and academic positions including Vice President of Futuremedia PLC, Director of ETB, founding Principal of Dubai University College, IBM Professor of Concurrent Engineering; Intergraph Professor of Electronic Design Automation; and Head of Research at Bournemouth University. He has published widely with over 60 publications and books worldwide and holds a number of invention patents.