Abdelwahab Mansour Alenezi

Abdelwahab Mansour Alenezi is the Founder & CEO of KICRA, the first private criminology institute in the MENA region, where he sets the institute's strategic direction across research, academic publishing, training, and institutional partnerships. He holds a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati and has built KICRA from the ground up, having previously served as its Founder & President. He specializes in criminology, AI-enabled and digital crime, and regulatory policy, with deep experience in academic publishing and international conference development. Abdelwahab founded the Gulf Criminology Review — the MENA region's first peer-reviewed criminology journal — and conceived and led KICRA's 1st Global Criminology Conference, bringing together speakers from seven countries. He regularly contributes to academic research and public scholarship on the future of crime, and brings expertise in AI, the metaverse, and the regulatory challenges facing mo