Dr. Hisham ElSherif
Chairman, Regional Information Technology Center (RITSEC) and Commissioner, Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC), Egypt
Biography:
Dr. Hisham El-Sherif is a leading authority on Telecommunications and IT in Egypt, the Middle East and the developing world. He is considered to be a central player in guiding Egypt and the Arab world into the Information Age. Currently Chairman of IT Investments, a holding direct investment company with subsidiaries in networking and Telecommunications, software development, IT systems Integration, Media and E-business, El-Sherif is also a force in driving the building of the Internet backbone in Egypt through his role as founder and Chairman of Nile Online. To date, IT Investments Group is comprised of 42 companies.
Dr. El-Sherif is a creative builder of Institutions and Organizations. He is directly responsible for building more than 29 technology related organizations, among them RITSEC, a regionally recognized leader in software engineering, multimedia, education, training, culture-ware and the information highway. The training institutes he helped build trained 300, 000 users by 1999, 1100 MBA’s and 11, 000 executives.
Dr. El-Sherif's interests and sense of social responsibility extend beyond technology. He has been appointed as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the renowned Egyptian Museum, Chairman of the "Egypt Internet Society," Member of Council of the "Motherhood and Childhood" and Chair of “Children with Special Needs” Initiative. He is a member of The Opera Fund, Egypt Culture Fund, and "National Board of Archaeology," and is a member of the Board of the Future Generation Foundation (FGF). He served as a member of the US-Egypt President's Council until 2002 and has been a professor at the American University in Cairo since 1991.
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