Yousef Alhammadi — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Executive Director at Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Leads Knowledge & Impact, developing 2035 sector strategy and launching innovation streams for early childhood development
Holds a PhD in Applied Statistics and Machine Learning from University of Alabama
Drove research and taught machine learning and business analytics at MIT and Masdar Institute
Former Chief Intelligence Officer at Special Olympics

Biography

Yousef Alhammadi serves as an Executive Director at the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority, where he leads Knowledge & Impact initiatives. His responsibilities include developing the 2035 sector strategy, launching innovation streams to direct investments into early childhood development (ECD), building a five-year research strategy, and fostering collaborations to create an insights system from cross-sectoral child data.