Sherif Anis
Senior Development Director
KAFD-DMC
Senior Development Director at KAFD Development Management Company
Executive Director, Past President & Co-Founder at AIA Middle East
Sherif is an architect and Senior Development Director with over three decades of diverse experience spanning the USA, UK, and the GCC. Since 2007, Sherif has been actively involved in transformative projects across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. With a keen focus on design and design management, Sherif has a proven track record of developing innovative, cost-effective designs in architecture, interior design, and urban planning. His high-profile project portfolio consists of large, mixed-use commercial/residential projects, corporate headquarters, hotels, university campuses, and buildings, extensive multi-use developments, major educational projects, and contemporary residences, all of which incorporate qualities that make projects successful, attractive, sustainable, and livable.
An award-winning and published designer, Sherif is a regular speaker, panelist, and chairperson at regional conferences and design award juries. He has been ranked #68 in the ‘Power 100 most influential people in the GCC’s construction industry. As a founding member of the American Institute of Architects Middle East Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Institute, Sherif presently serves as the chapter’s Executive Director and has served as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, and President.
Sherif holds a Bachelor of Architecture from New York’s Syracuse University School of Architecture and is a licensed architect in the State of Massachusetts.
Executive Director, Past President & Co-Founder at AIA Middle East
Sherif is an architect and Senior Development Director with over three decades of diverse experience spanning the USA, UK, and the GCC. Since 2007, Sherif has been actively involved in transformative projects across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. With a keen focus on design and design management, Sherif has a proven track record of developing innovative, cost-effective designs in architecture, interior design, and urban planning. His high-profile project portfolio consists of large, mixed-use commercial/residential projects, corporate headquarters, hotels, university campuses, and buildings, extensive multi-use developments, major educational projects, and contemporary residences, all of which incorporate qualities that make projects successful, attractive, sustainable, and livable.
An award-winning and published designer, Sherif is a regular speaker, panelist, and chairperson at regional conferences and design award juries. He has been ranked #68 in the ‘Power 100 most influential people in the GCC’s construction industry. As a founding member of the American Institute of Architects Middle East Board of Directors and a Fellow of the Institute, Sherif presently serves as the chapter’s Executive Director and has served as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice President, and President.
Sherif holds a Bachelor of Architecture from New York’s Syracuse University School of Architecture and is a licensed architect in the State of Massachusetts.