Captain Dr. Eng. Meiaad Alsaadi is an accomplished and enthusiastic leader whose achievements include becoming the first woman in the UAE Ministry of Interior (MOI) to be a captain, doctor, and network engineer working in digital database management. She made a qualitative leap in the field of digital database engineering through the development of the Digital Databases Section. She manages databases covering all of the MOI’s operations such as criminal, traffic, civil defense, and others. 

Dr. Alsaadi is a leader in Business Continuity Management, developing a framework and plans for risks and challenges management and ensuring they meet all legislative, legal, regulatory, strategic, and political requirements. She also supervises the business continuity operations experiments for the primary data centers, enabling the MOI to be the first UAE government entity to work remotely during the COVD-19 pandemic. She has chaired multiple specialized work teams and crafted numerous initiatives to help the MOI meet its strategic goals.  

Dr. Alsaadi exhibits the ability and social intelligence to communicate with others in different cultures, leading to her representing the MOI at the World Summit of Women Presidents of Parliament; she has also been delegated to the Women’s Leadership Program at Al Maktoum College for Higher Education in Scotland. She has received numerous awards, including the best engineering employee in Mohammed bin Rashid Government Performance Award, best technical officer in HH Minister of Interior Award, and the Stevie Award for best technical support team.   

“Working in the police field develops personal skills such as commitment, leadership, productivity, and loyalty.”