Dr. Muhammad Sharif is an Advisor/Director Science and Technology Sector at Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) at HQ Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco. ICESCO is an inter-governmental organization having 54 member states around the world, emanated from the (OIC), specializing in the fields of education, science and culture. Dr Sharif is an Associated Professor at Leibniz Institute for Catalysis Rostock Germany, President of African Branch (55 countries) of International Engineering and Technology Institute and Adjunct Professor at University of Lahore Pakistan. Dr. Sharif is an architect of several international initiatives which include ICESCO Accelerator program for 54 countries, ICESCO International Aerospace Symposium and Model Satellite (CanSat) training workshops Initiative for member states, ICESCO’s Food Security Initiative for Sahel Region and Global Space Science Forum (GSSF). 

Dr Sharif has been instrumental in setting up several ICESCO scientific chairs which includes, 1) International Space University on Space Science Applications, 2) Sultan Qaboos University Oman on “Remote Sensing”, 3) Qauid-I-Azam University Islamabad Pakistan on Big Data Analytics & Edge Computing,4) National University of Science and Technology Pakistan on Data Science and Analytics for Business 5) The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) on 

on Sustainable Engineering, 6) The Baku State University Azerbaijan on Biomedical Materials.