Al Ghanim is also the Executive in Charge of the UAE Telecom & E-Commerce Chapter in the Free Trade Agreement negotiations, and the UAE Free Trade negotiations with the United States and Australia. He is the Vice-Chairman of the UAE Information & Communications Development Fund (ICT Fund) and the Chairman of the UAE Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.

Al Ghanim graduated from Etisalat College of Engineering in 1994 as a Telecom Engineer and joined the only telecom operator in the UAE at that Time, the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) where he achieved the highest managerial post in Etisalat’s GMPCS Department. In 1997, he was seconded by Etisalat to join the launching of Thuraya Satellite Telecommunication Company as the Senior Manager Product.

While working for Etisalat and Thuraya, Al Ghanim represented the UAE in several regional and international Telecom & IT related forums and conferences.

Al Ghanim has been entrusted with the establishing of the TRA, where in a record time, the TRA has succeeded in implementing the regulatory framework for the sector, including the necessary policies, such as Interconnection Agreements and Pricing Policies for the creation of a healthy and a competitive environment. During the initial six months of operation, the TRA launched the Spectrum National Plan and the Spectrum Frequency Chart Map, the first of their kind in the region, although the UAE was the last country in the region to regulate the telecom sector. Succeeding in licensing the second telecom operator in the UAE in February 2007, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company “du” along with licensing the existing operator Etisalat, the TRA won a seat at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council, Chaired the Arab Regulators Network (AREGNET), hosted the ITU 7th Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) that has been considered the most successful among all previous GSR’s as per the ITU evaluation, established the .ae Domain Administration (.aeDA), established the UAE Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), activated the process of sharing the mobile networks sites between the two UAE telecom operators, placed the UAE as the 3rd Arab country to provide competition in fixed line telephony service through introducing the Carrier Selection Service, and orchestrated the establishment of the UAE Information and Communications Development Fund (ICT Fund) that is considered the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Still, the TRA under Al Ghanim’s administration, endeavored to fulfill its obligation to act as a responsible corporate citizen by adopting the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) concept within all its managerial decisions, where the TRA identified its employees, customers, suppliers and the larger community as the relevant stakeholders to whom this obligation is owed. Among the most effective CSR initiatives, the TRA launched the UAE National Telecom Recycling Campaign, as an environmental initiative in accordance with the UAE National Environmental Strategy, aiming at collecting damaged and old mobile phones and all their accessories to be sent for recycling.