Sultan Ali Al Taher, Ph.D. is the Director of the Food Safety Department for the Dubai Municipality in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He is also the first Arab to earn a Ph.D. on the cultural dimensions of food safety, from Salford University in the UK.
With Dubai receiving about nine million metric tons of food annually, having over 26,000 food establishments, and being home to more than 200 nationalities, the scale—and the stakes—for food safety are enormous.
