Asim Abdel Rahman El Sheikh is dean of information technology in the Arab Academy for
Banking and Financial Sciences (AABFS). He supervised a number of theses in simulation
and software engineering. He earned his PhD and MSc from London School of Economics
& Political Science, and his BSc from University of Khartoum. He was a researcher in the
Computer-Aided Simulation Modelling (CASM) Research Group. He worked as programmer, system analyst & designer in many organizations. He has authored two books and many
articles. His research interest areas include SW piracy, software outsourcing, simulation
modeling, and SW engineering.