Dr. Hossam is an Urban & Regional Planning Consultant with more than 20 years of extensive experience and leadership in working with municipal government and consultation firms in Regional and Urban planning projects in Egypt, UK, Qatar, and KSA. He has got the experience of the three sides of the coin by Working on the Government Side, the Private Consultancy Side, and academic experience in planning and implementing programs in wide variety of strategic developments including regional and urban development’s, tourism, and coastal planning & management. He led the preparation of Qatar Municipalities Spatial Development Plans, the Interim Coastal Development Guidelines and zoning regulations in Qatar. Moreover he participated in many projects like Qatar Planning Legislation, SEA for Qatar National Master Plan (QNMP), ICZMP, Qatar National Strategy 2017-2022 in addition to many others projects related to QNMP. Furthermore Dr. Hossam as Subject Matter Expert (SME) has participated in assessing the performance and excellence practices of different government entities using fourth generation system, especially for government entities that related to urban & regional development, Municipality affairs, Housing and Transportation.