Doaa M. Taha

Doaa Taha is Board Co-Chair, and Sr. VP at GMI (Grey Matter International Ltd), a global boutique strategic advisory services firm based in Washington DC. In her consulting capacity, Dr. Taha is in charge of a number of business development and R&D portfolios, including many involving PPPs, notably in her areas of expertise, such as Engineering Management and Systems Engineering in which she earned her PhD at The George Washington University, focusing on Post-9/11 Risk, Crisis, Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Planning and Management (she coordinated a Research Study funded by the National Science Foundation in that field). Aside from Teaching and Research Positions (for which she published a number of outputs), Dr. Taha held a number of previous positions, some of them highly technical (in Electronics, etc.), others business oriented, in the Private Sector as well as holding current Board Directorships in the non-profit sector.

Publications

Public-Private Partnerships in Support of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Public-Private Partnerships in Support of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Martin A. Negrón, Doaa Taha. © 2019. 14 pages.
In the absence of unlimited resources, governments typically face significant challenges in the process of allocating resources to optimize the benefits to the majority of the...
Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
Marvine Paula Hamner, S. Shane Stovall, Doaa M. Taha, Salah C. Brahimi. © 2015. 345 pages.
In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and...
Mitigating the Impact of Extreme Events: A Private Sector Perspective on the Value of Public Private Partnerships
Mitigating the Impact of Extreme Events: A Private Sector Perspective on the Value of Public Private Partnerships
Doaa Taha. © 2015. 22 pages.
Years have gone by since 9/11/2001. Still, it seems as though it were only yesterday: the shock, the tragedy, the heartbreak. Of all the questions, one keeps coming back, “Have...
Public-Private Partnerships in Support of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Public-Private Partnerships in Support of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Martin A. Negrón, Doaa Taha. © 2015. 14 pages.
In the absence of unlimited resources, governments typically face significant challenges in the process of allocating resources to optimize the benefits to the majority of the...
Identifying and Managing Risks Inherent in e-Government Project Implementation: Requirements for new Tools and Methodologies
Identifying and Managing Risks Inherent in e-Government Project Implementation: Requirements for new Tools and Methodologies
Marvine Hamner, Martin A. Negrón, Doaa Taha, Salah Brahimi. © 2012. 39 pages.
e-Government implementation in developing countries is usually very different than it is in developed countries, with different strategy, different challenges, and different...
e-Government Implementation in a Developing Country: A Case Study
e-Government Implementation in a Developing Country: A Case Study
Marvine Hamner, Martin A. Negrón, Doaa Taha, Salah Brahimi. © 2012. 28 pages.
When e-Government projects fail, the costs to developing countries can be extraordinarily high. Therefore, the importance of understanding the risks, the ability to manage those...
Human Factors in Implementing E-Government in Developing Countries
Human Factors in Implementing E-Government in Developing Countries
Marvine Hamner, Doaa Taha, Salah Brahimi. © 2010. 23 pages.
Even today only modest gains have been made since the implementation of E-Government. A veritable plethora of human factors affect the success, or failure, of technology...
"Potential" Barriers to E-Government Implementation in Developing Countries
Marvine Hamner, Doaa Taha, Salah Brahimi. © 2010. 20 pages.
Developing countries interested in initiating E-Government will confront a number of issues and challenges in this endeavor. These issues and challenges often manifest themselves...