Dr. Yaser Bishr is the Executive Director of Digital at Al Jazeera Media Network. Yaser is leading the Network’s transformation as a global digital media player.

 Prior to Al Jazeera, Yaser was Chief strategist and business development Director at Lockheed Martin, based in the Washington D.C. Area with remit to lead the 

transformation of its intelligence and cyber business from government focused to commercial.

Yaser has 21 years’ experience as software architect and engineer, entrepreneur, and academic. Prior to joining Lockheed, Yaser had successfully co-founded

and sold several startups in location based services and social media analytics in Germany and in the US.

Yaser holds an MBA from Duke University, an MSc and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.