Maurice Danaher is an Associate Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. He received his PhD in Computing and Information Systems from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His research has been in the areas of Information Technology and Education.

In IT he has published in security, artificial intelligence and computer graphics. In recent years his focus in Education research has moved towards issues related to quality in education. He focuses on quality assessment, and teaching and assessing the 21st century skills.

Dr. Danaher has extensive experience in industry and academia internationally. He has worked with industry in the USA, Canada, England and Ireland. He has held academic positions in Australia and Singapore and has a considerable number of publications.