Biography:

Prof. Hossam Badrawi, prominent physician and well-known politician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development. He is the Founder and the Honorary chairman of the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council (ENCC), Cairo University Medical School 2009/2011.

Academically, he graduated from Cairo University Kasr El Aini 1974, with an honors degree. He fulfilled his graduate studies during 1979-1983 in Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA, in the use of scanning electron microscopy. He completed postgraduate studies at North Western University, Chicago, Illinois. In Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, he had intense graduate studies in methodologies for development of curricula and study programs in education. His academic activities include the publication of more than 120 research papers, and participated in 8 textbooks in his academic field. He published his last book about Education Reform (in Arabic) November 2011.

In 2007, Prof. Badrawi received an honorary PhD in Science from Sunderland University in the United Kingdom, for outstanding work in higher education reform in the Middle East region. He is a Visiting Professor in political science in center of Altiero Spinelli, University of Roma.

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