Salim Maloof was born in Lebanon. His family immigrated to the US at the start of the Lebanese civil war. He speaks Arabic, French and Spanish. He could read and understand Russian.

In the US, Salim Maloof enrolled in a joint BS program at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now New York University) where he earned a BS in chemistry and chemical engineering and then went on to earn an MS in environmental engineering. After graduation, he worked for a US engineering consulting firm designing physical, chemical and biological processes for use in the control of biological matter.

In 1991, he returned to Polytechnic Institute (now NYU) to study towards a PhD in environmental engineering with a focus on the control of nutrients and biological matter within biological processes. He completed all course requirements for this degree but upon doing so realized that his real interests lay in behavior and dynamics of physical matter. He then began working on the idea of developing a mathematical relationship that he saw implicated in multi-dimensional nonlinear dynamics and chaos fluid fractures problems and started studying fluid morphology involved in non-quantified complex fluid dynamic problems. His PhD dissertation was titled Dispersion and Displacement of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Radial Flow in Porous Media.

In 1992, Salim Maloof took a class with Dr. Alvin Goodman, Professor Emeritus of NYU School of Engineering and author of the book: Infrastructure Planning Handbook: Planning, Engineering and Economics. It was here that he saw a disconnect between the theoretical models and hypotheses that Dr. Goodman was teaching, and the reality he lived as a child in the developing economy of Lebanon. It was then that he realized that the epistemology that academics are using to describe the social realm doesn’t correlate with the reality on the ground.

With the above realization in hand, he drew on his background in computational and analytical methods in complex multi-dimensional nonlinear and non-quantified dynamics and chaos fluid fracture problems and incorporated them into his growing vision of what causes social fracture. Fitting perfectly into this vision was his background in the control and management of bacterial behavior and nutrients. He was beginning to develop a new methodology for the studying of human behavior. This methodology is not limited to the application of aid programs in developing countries but is equally effective for all types of investments.

In 1994, he began offering services in international technical assistance and gained great experience traveling through developing countries where he repeatedly saw illustrations of the disconnect between programs designed to improve social conditions and the less than desirable realities that their implementation created. As he traveled and worked, he continued his personal research applying his vision within the professional realm. Finally, in a two-year period starting in 2001, he developed a mathematical model to express what his education and growing experience had shown him first hand. By 2005 this work had become a book explaining his theory and mathematical model in detail.

Since 2015, he has dedicated himself to compiling his work into a series of books. In August 2017, Salim Maloof founded the Center for Modernity Planning and Assessment and offers his services to governments and investment groups who want to become much more effective in countries and markets and who want to implement projects that are sustainable.