Dr. Mansour Farhat is a business excellence and quality management expert with over 22 years of experience across diverse multinational organizations: healthcare, management consulting, IT advisory, the aviation sector and regulatory bodies. Since July 2014 he has served as Head of Quality Management & Operational Audit, International at Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects Corporation, leading business excellence, quality improvement and business agility efforts in the aviation sector of the Dubai Government, including an integrated management system spanning 15+ ISO standards — from ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 to ISO 42001 (AI management systems) and ISO 56002 (innovation management).
Previously he was Manager of the Business Consulting & IT Advisory team at KPMG Lower Gulf (Abu Dhabi), where he managed the design, implementation, auditing and improvement of international standards for private and public sector clients; he began his career in the healthcare sector (Dubai Health Authority, JCIA accreditation). An accredited European assessor for the EFQM model, he is also an accredited Lead Auditor for the ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 56002, ISO 20000-1, ISO 30401, ISO 30408, ISO 10015 and GDPR schemes.
He serves as a mentor, team leader and senior assessor across twelve business excellence awards, including the Dubai Quality Award, Shaikh Khalifa Excellence Award, Dubai Human Development Award, Sharjah SEEN Award, King Abdul Aziz Quality Award, Stevie Awards, Harvard Business Council International Awards and the Arab Government Excellence Award. A keynote speaker at quality and AI conventions in Riyadh, London and Dubai (2024–2025), he is the author of the book Emotional Excellence (2020). He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (IBAS, Switzerland) and a Master of Quality Management (University of Wollongong in Dubai), and is a UAE Golden Visa resident.
Within IAE he holds the grade of Certified International Expert (CIE); attestation field — Business Excellence and AI-Driven Organizational Assessment. The member record and status are verifiable through the Association’s public registry via QR code.