Nabil Harfoush

nharfoush@ocadu.ca
Professor, Continuing
Faculty of Design
Strategic Foresight
Resilience
Business Design
Flourishing Enterprise
Innovation Leadership

Nabil is Full Professor at OCAD University, Toronto, co-founding faculty of its Strategic Foresight & Innovation MDes program, Director of the Resilient Design Lab (Toronto) and co-founder of the Strongly Sustainable Business Models Group (SSBMG). He was also a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS) 2018-2021 where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses including courses for the Master of Design Engineering (MDE), a joint program with Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

Nabil has a master’s in computer engineering and a Ph.D. suma cum laude in digital data communications from Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) in Germany. He is also a graduate of the Executive Development Program of York University’s Schulich School of Business.

In his multiple careers he has advised national governments, consulted for international organizations such as UNESCO, WHO, the World Bank and IDRC; started 3 companies; and has served as CIO in technology companies. He has been invited to speak at Harvard's Kennedy School, École des Ponts, Politecnico de Milano, London School of Economics, University of Berkeley, Autodesk, BMW Foundation, and others.

Nabil has more than 50 years of experience as an engineer, executive, entrepreneur, organizer, and educator. His current interests are in sustainable business design, resilience of organizations and communities, strategic foresight applications, and leadership of highly diverse multi-disciplinary teams.