Professor Tarek Gaber is a senior academic leader with over twenty-five years of experience in higher education across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) from the University of Manchester (UK) and has held academic appointments at the University of Salford (UK), the University of Liverpool (UK), VSB–Technical University of Ostrava (Czech), and Suez Canal University (Egypt). His expertise includes online and blended programme design in AI, Cybersecurity, and Software Engineering, UK quality assurance and accreditation frameworks, and postgraduate supervision. Professor Gaber is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an IEEE Senior Member, specialising in digital learning strategy and curriculum leadership for online higher-education provision.