Aline Daoud is Managing Partner and founder at the Blockchain Research Institute – Middle East and the Managing Director of Konnect & Co, a supply chain management company established in Beirut and operating in the GCC, Europe and the MENA Region providing a wide spectrum of services to the construction and hospitality industry

Aline is a Civil & Environment Engineer who started her career path in Lebanon and moved to Doha in 2013. Her experience is quite diversified thanks to the different roles and tasks she led across the construction industry throughout the past years.

During the global pandemic lockdown and while in self-quarantine, Aline enrolled in tens of online courses and earned numerous certificates, many of which being Blockchain Technology related and the Internet of Value.

It is precisely her great interest in this new technology that brought her to exclusively partner with the Elite Think Tank in the Blockchain Industry, the BRI – Blockchain Research Institute.

This partnership principally aims at leading the professional spread and application through the education of this technology in the MENA region

Aline holds a BS degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the American University of Beirut (2011) and several certificates such as “The Blockchain Revolution from Insead and The Blockchain Research Institute” (2020); “The Entrepreneurial Mindset from The Babson University” (2020) and Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology from the New York Institute of Finance (2020)