Dr. Nibal Idlebi is the chief of Innovation Section at ESCWA and a senior expert in developing Knowledge Society. She joined ESCWA in 2004, and she has extensive knowledge in ICT policies and strategies, building Information Society and Knowledge Economy. She leads a number of regional initiatives for developing knowledge society in the Arab region such as “Harmonization of Cyber Legislation for building Knowledge Society in the Arab region”. Dr Idlebi manages and supervises research and development activities at ESCWA, and she leads the preparation of reports and publications, organization of regional conferences, meetings and workshops; and she provides advisory services to ESCWA member countries on Innovation and ICT policies and strategies, enabling environment of Information Society, Innovation and digital Arabic content.