Dr. Hashim S. Hussein is Head of United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Investment and Technology Promotion Office (UNIDO-ITPO)/ the Arab Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment Training (ARCEIT) – Kingdom of Bahrain. Dr. Hussein has rich experience in the field of Industrial Development and Investment and Technology Promotion for the last Seventeen years. He has an extensive experience of over 20 years in SME and Entrepreneurship development.

He holds a PhD (Honors) in International Law from the Universite de Nantes, France. He obtained a Doctoral Research Programme from University of Maryland at College Park, Centre for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), Maryland, U.S.A in the year 1989. He has worked at various responsibility levels in different countries like USA, Egypt, Sudan and the Kingdom of Bahrain.
He joined UNIDO in 1991 as a Program Officer posted in the Kingdom of Bahrain to become in 1996 the Head of UNIDO-ITPO.