Dr. Ahmed Jamil Kattan has been a deputy minister for contractor classification at the Ministry of Municipal, Rural Affairs and Housing since 2019.
Kattan received a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from the Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2005.
Two years later, he successfully completed an M.S. program in software engineering from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, UK, where he also obtained a Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence in 2010.
In 2010, he worked as a research associate of game theory and evolutionary computation in the computer science department at Loughborough University in the UK. He also taught computer courses in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex in 2007.