4x bestselling author. Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy - 2017Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World - 2021That Little Voice in Your Head- 2022Unstressable - 2024Seventeen days after losing my wonderful son, Ali, I began writing about happiness—an unexpected topic given the tragedy. In less than six months, the book was complete. Despite the pain, my family and I found a state of "joy" using a model I developed over a decade, based on "The Happiness Equation."I published my first book Solve for Happy in 2017. Three more books have followed, all of which have become international bestsellers.

Making one billion people happy is Mo Gawdat’s goal in life. This personal moonshot is Mo’s mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people around the world to honor the peaceful life of his son, Ali, who passed away unexpectedly during a routine medical procedure. FB.com/OneBillionHappy Twitter - @onebillionhappy

(Note: My external title was "Vice President - Business Innovation" until end of 2015 due to legal restrictions on C-Level titles while X was a devision of Google prior to the Alphabet announcement.)At X, Google [X], we focus on creating "moonshot" innovation that solves the biggest problems affecting humanity today. We deploy cutting edge technology, robotics and computer sciences to reinvent the approach to some of the humanity's biggest challenges varying from Energy, to transportation, access to the internet, life sciences, climate change and more. Examples of X's radical innovation include self driving cars, Makani energy kites, smart contact lenses, Project Loon and many more. Our approach to "moonshot" innovation that commits to solving the problem not a specific product or technology, even if the solution appears to be science fiction. As part of an incredibly talented team, my role, as CBO, is to land the moonshots we launch as real businesses in the real world, inform our brilliant engineers of real world expectations and restrictions, develop innovative business models to match our disruptive innovation, close the early "light house" deals, while helping customers and partners globally benefit from our breakthrough technology.

Responsible for Google's multi-billion Dollar business and overall success in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa.

Skolkovo is an initiative by the Russian Government to spark technology innovation and provide a Silicon Vally type of environment in Russia. http://www.sk.ru/ru-RU.aspx?sc_Lang=enI represent Google on the board of director (standing in for Eric Schmidt) along side senior business leaders including Craig Barret - ex-CEO of Intel, Viktor Vekselberg - owner of Renova investment fund, as well as senior leaders from Cisco, Siemens and other leading global players.

Rings is a multimillion dollar, leading provider of "ready to eat" food to major retail outlet, university campuses, hotels and events in Dubai.

SmartGym is a multimillion dollar leading player in the fitness market in Egypt. It is built on a creative approach to fitness centers in a chain that meets the exact needs of the unique fitness market in a "poorer, more conservative" Market.www.smart-gym.com

Develop Microsoft's Business with Telco's, Publishers, Media and Entertainment clients directly starting in the Middle East and Africa Region in 2001 and promoted to be cover Emerging Markets Globally. Prior to the Communications Sector, I ran SMB, partners, distribution and the Technology Group for Microsoft Egypt.

Responsible for sales and business development in the Government, Oil and Gas, Defense and General Business sectors in Abu Dhabi.

Responsible for Sales in the Government and Education sector in IBM Egypt