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Professor Alain Senteni is currently the Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU), in Dubai (UAE), where he was the first appointed Dean of the School of e-Education (SEED) from 2009 to 2014. Previously he had been the Director of the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies (VCILT) and the Chairman of the Lifelong Learning Cluster (LLC) of the University of Mauritius from 2001 to 2008.

Prof Alain received an Engineering Degree in Computer Science (1969), followed by a PhD (1989), and an HDR (1995) in Artificial Intelligence in Education from the National Polytechnics Institute (INPT) in Toulouse (France). His academic career started in Canada as a professor of Educational Technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Montreal, from 1989 to 1996.

Professor Senteni is an active member of the Technical Committee on Education of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He chaired the Education Commission of the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) in Botswana (2005), Ethiopia (2007), Vietnam (2009), and India (2012). He also chaired the e-Learning Excellence in the Middle-East Conference organized in Dubai by HBMSU, every yearfrom 2009 to 2014.

Prof Senteni’s work and research interests focus on the integration of ICTs in educational systems of developing countries, and mor eand more on innovation, creativity, and smart entrepreneurship. He was awarded in September 2011 an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) for his contribution to international development and education in developing countries.