Biography:

Hossam A. El Saghir, Professor of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, Helwan University obtained LL.B in Law (1971) from Ain Shams University, Egypt. He obtained Higher Diplomas in Public Law (1973), Islamic Law (1974), Private Law (1979) and PhD in Commercial Law (1987) from Cairo University. He also obtained Master of Laws (LL.M) in Intellectual Property from Turin University, Italy, in 2003. From 1987 he taught Commercial and Intellectual Property Laws at Ain Shams, Assiut, Menofia, Cairo and Helwan Universities (Egypt). He was also a visiting professor at Saint Louis University (1990/1991), and Pace University (1996/1997 and 1999) in USA. He is the founding Director of the Middle East Center for International Commercial Law established, in cooperation with the Pace University, in 1998. He is also the founding Director of the Regional Institute for Intellectual Property established, in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in 2006 at Helwan University. The Government has appointed him a member of several committees responsible for drafting a number of commercial legislations, one of which is the Egyptian Intellectual Property Law in force. He has represented the WIPO as an Intellectual Property Expert in several missions to provide advice to Arab countries while drafting their intellectual property laws; in addition to representing the WIPO in many conferences, workshops and symposiums. He is a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). He has valuable writings in the fields of commercial and intellectual property laws. The most recent of which is the monograph Egypt, July 2009 (p.184), an integral part of Intellectual Property in the International Encyclopedia of Laws series, published by Kluwer Law International. He practices law as a legal consultant, arbitrator and a lawyer before the Court of Cassation, the Higher Administrative Court and the Constitutional Court. The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt has appointed him a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education.

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