Dr. Hisham El Sherif

DR. HISHAM EL-SHERIF

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

• PhD in Business and Engineering from the MIT (1982/83).

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• President of IT Investments, an investment holding with subsidiaries in telecommunications, software development, systems integration, media and e-business (42 companies).
• Founder and Chairman of Nile Online, responsible for developing Egypt’s Internet infrastructure.
• Founder and Chairman of the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (1985–1999). Oversaw 1,500 centers, 40,000 jobs, and Egypt’s first centralized data repository.
• Under his leadership, the IDSC was ranked among the world’s top 100 IT organizations.
• Founder of more than 29 technology-related organizations, including RITSEC and training centers that trained 300,000 users, 1,239 MBAs and 27,262 executives (1999).
• Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission, Washington.
• Chaired the group that developed the “Africa Information Society Initiative”, adopted by all African nations.
• Collaborated with United Nations, World Bank, UNDP, WIPO, WTO, UNCTAD and ILO, among others.
• Initiated and implemented more than 700 programs and projects in Egypt, the Middle East, the United States and Europe.
• Professor at the American University in Cairo since 1991. In 2008, the AUC established an annual scholarship in his name.
• Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Egyptian Museum.
• President of the Egypt Internet Society.
• Chair of the Special Needs Children Initiative and member of various cultural institutions (Opera, Culture and Archaeology).
• Member of the Presidents’ Council of USEgypt (until 2002).

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• IFORS Operation Research Third World Prize (1987).
• World Information Systems SIM First Prize (1988).
• Franz Edelman Award for Management and Application (1989).
• French Knight Title awarded by the President of France (1991).
• Egyptian First Order Medal of Science and Arts (1999).
• Order of Merit of Tunisia (2004).