Dr. Ibrahim Odeh - Columbia University NYC

Professor Ibrahim Odeh is the Founding Director of the Global Leaders in Construction Management program at Columbia University. He is a unique combination of a strategist, academic, innovator, and entrepreneur. His work seamlessly merges the worlds of industry and academia, spans the global construction market, and provides leading construction firms with unique market insights and growth strategies. Odeh worked as an advisory committee member at the World Economic Forum on “Future of Construction” project and advisory board member at Financial Times on a similar initiative. Recent global project Odeh introduced in Fall 2016 focused on providing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) to educate global learners about Construction Management under the Coursera platform. In the first two years the number of learners registered for his courses reached over 65,000 from 190 countries with an additional 400 new learners joining every week! His courses ranked third globally under the business category on Coursera. He won several awards and recognition such as: Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching; Top 20 Under 40 by Engineering News Records; and Top 40 Under 40 by Consulting-Specifying Engineer. Odeh received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and he also holds an MBA.