Zahir Qasrawi

Zahir Qasrawi

Palestine Chapter

Biography

Zahir Qasrawi has been a board member of the ISOC Palestine Chapter since 2017, and is the ISOC Palestine Chapter's representative of the Chapters Advisory Council (ChAC).

Zahir is an information security professional who, over the past 20 years, has worked as a computer networks engineer and information technology manager in different public and private sectors organizations. He has a B.Sc. major in electrical engineering (minor in communication systems), and an M.Sc. in scientific computing from Birzeit University in Palestine. 

Zahir has several certificates and training in computer networks and security, including a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). 

In 2019, he was one of the team leaders of ISOC Palestine's Beyond the Net Grant project, which was recognized as a WSIS Prize 2019 champion in Category 5: "Building confidence and security in the use of ICT”.