A Global Award-Winning Design Academic & A Futurist. Dr. Noha is the Cairo chapter founder of

Speculative Futures, CA, US. A prestigious board member of AJMIRI/US. A Global Ambassador &

Advocate of Sustainability at Ministry of planning and economic development. A Fellowship

Researcher at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland-Basel Academy of

Art and Design, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures. Research Associate at LSBU

with 15+ years in Academia and 20+ years of professional experience. She is a member of African

Circular Economic Network (ACEN). She serves as a design professor and an educational consultant

at a number of reputable universities in Egypt, Gulf Region and UK such as GUC, AASTMT, MSA,

ASU and LSBU. She received the leadership accolade of WDO for her excellence in the design driven

foresight context that work in alignment with the UNDP. Dr. Noha has received her Ph.D. with honor

from Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, and two Masters degrees, M.Sc. Environmental Psychology from

St. Lawrence College, Canada and M.A. interior architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo, Egypt.

She is the founder of Studio ne+ where she brings in how to move masses and change behaviors

through her foresight based design approach and trend forecasting techniques that tackle design from

different context and perspective. Her researches develop better understandings of the relations

between sustainable design education, and the creative industry with a focus on the future literacy

and speculation. Her PhD thesis was shortlisted for the Best Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Thesis among

Middle East universities for the topic of “Phobia of Spaces” for the year 2018. She has many

international publications in interdisciplinary studies. Her crossover of passions, as well as her

methodology, informs her work and creates brilliant and inspiring end results. She positively

influences younger generations of designers through her work and researches. Her fusion of

experiencing multidisciplinary was a process of unravelling of potentials and giving free play to her

creative mind while considering the practical human experience that are at the core of her approach