Dr Moneef R. Zou’bi has been active in global Sustainable Development particularly through Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) for around 30 years. He currently serves as the Science Advisor to the Interaction Council (IAC) which is an independent international organization that mobilizes the experience of a group of former heads of state and statesmen from all over the world. Previously, he worked for the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) (an international scientific NGO based in Jordan and affiliated to the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC)) firmly positioning the IAS on the international STI landscape. After serving in various capacities at the IAS, he served as Director General IAS (May 1998 – September 2019), and then as Emeritus Director General from October 2019. 

He has published over 60 papers and edited and co-edited 20 books on topics such as higher education, the environment as well as transformational technologies. In 2010, he co-authored the groundbreaking Arab States Chapter of the 2010 UNESCO Science Report that foresaw the advent of the Arab Spring and the associated turmoil in the Middle East. In 2015 and 2020, he was commissioned again to be an author of the Arab States Chapter of the 2015 and 2020 editions of the prestigious UNESCO Science Reports.

Over the last three decades, he has been involved in scientific missions in more than 30 countries. He has, since the mid-1990s, devoted all his energies to science and innovation advocacy at all levels, and to promoting the role of science and academies of sciences in particular in bridging scientific and technological, development, and even political divides between countries, cultures and civilizations.