After obtaining a B.S. in mechanical engineering, and an M.S. in materials engineering, he earned a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Management from New York University. A native speaker of Arabic, Dr. Watad is also fluent in English and Hebrew. He teaches in the graduate and undergraduate education programs that are offered by the college of Business at William Paterson University. His research in knowledge management, telecommuting, office automation, information systems assessment, and strategic management has been presented at some of the leading academic conferences around the world and published in some of the prestigious journals such as the Sloan Management Review.