Ghada Soufan

Ghada Soufan is a founder and managing director of an International consulting firm, ProCare Services, which is actively engaged in an emerging Canada-based higher education knowledge & resource network. Her university education includes a bachelor degree and a master degree in Architectural Engineering. Ms. Soufan possesses over twenty years of experience working as a project manager, leader of multi-national project teams and as a facility and institutional business planner and designer. In her career so far, she has led and contributed to more than 70 projects of different scales serving various types of businesses and industries in various countries, with a particular focus on educational and healthcare facility and business planning.

Ms. Soufan has extensive experience in leading feasibility and design studies in the establishment of universities and other public-sector institutions. Most notably and of direct relevance are her recent roles as team leader for the Framework Design of the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) and the Planning Analysis, Feasibility Study & Systems Development project of the Ahram Canadian University in Egypt (ACU).

BIUST is under establishment by the Government of Botswana as a second state university, to expand the domestic tertiary education capacity of Botswana and drive a transformation of its economy from resource-based to knowledge-based. Ms Soufan led and managed the framework design consultancy services entailed in establishing this new university for a consortium led by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, engaging some 85 professionals from 2 Canadian University Associations, 4 Canadian Universities and 4 African and international Consulting Firms. Her technical role entailed investigating various contextual parameters that shaped the overall framework design, identifying the academic architecture and research thrusts that needed to be informed by market-related and other analyzed contextual data, as well as directing and informing the development of all other components of the project which was then culminated by her authoring of a strategic plan that synthesized all project outcomes.Ms. Soufan also led and managed the establishment project of the Ahram Canadian University in Egypt. The project was also undertaken under the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada for a major stakeholder in the Egyptian and Middle Eastern media community, Al-Ahram Establishment. Ms Soufan led a large multi-disciplinary team involving 6 leading Canadian universities engaged in establishing this private not-for-profit university, to be managed according to Canadian standards while meeting requirements of Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities. With her extensive background in architectural engineering, Ms Soufan also provided advice, guidance and direction regarding campus master planning and laboratory space and facility planning.
Ms. Soufan has also played lead roles in several other large-scale institutional and sectoral studies conducted for various donor, governmental, non-governmental, civil society and private organizations and stakeholders. Examples include her role as the Team Leader & Business Analysis & Development Expert for the Capacity Assessment, Institutional Development & Business Process Re-engineering Study of the Kimadia Health Reform Project in Iraq as well as her role as Team Leader and chief investigator for the Analytical Study & Technical Evaluation of the Private Hospitals Sector in Jordan. She was also the Project Director & Institutional Assessment and Development Expert for the Institutional Framework, Organizational & Operational Development and Capacity Building of a newly established Ministry of Displacement and Migration in Iraq.