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Ahmed Abdel-Meguid

Assistant Professor of Accounting

The American University in Cairo

Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Meguid is an assistant professor of accounting at the School of

Business, the American University in Cairo (AUC). He has previously taught at Syracuse

University (NY, USA), the German University in Cairo (GUC), and Ain Shams

University. He also has extensive experience in teaching training courses for professional

certifications such the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and the Chartered Financial

Analyst (CFA). He also worked as a consultant to the Egyptian Tax Authority. Dr. Abdel-

Meguid acts as the liaison between the School of Business at the AUC and the Secretariat

of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) - an initiative based on

the UN Global Compact. He is also the founding faculty advisor for the Corporate

Governance Club (CGC) at the AUC. His research interests include audit quality and

corporate governance. He has papers published and forthcoming in the Review of

Accounting and Finance, Journal of Management and Governance, International Journal

of Accounting and Information Management, Corporate Governance: The International

Journal of Business in Society. Dr. Abdel-Meguid holds a Masters of Science in

Accounting and a Ph.D. in Business Administration (accounting) from Syracuse

University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) non-practicing certificate

holder in the USA.

Ahmed El Daly

Founder & CEO Dale Carnegie Training Egypt

Ahmed El Daly is a serial entrepreneur who founded more than 10 different companies

since his graduation from the Faculty of Commerce in 1987 – the most known and most

successful of which are Berlitz Egypt Founded in 1997 and specializing in language

training and Dale Carnegie Training Egypt founded in 2002, representing the 100 years‟

old training and development company.

He has been active in many organizations that support youth and entrepreneurship. He is

Chairman and co-founder of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Committee at AmCham,

board member at the “Egyptian Franchise Development Association (EFDA)”, member

of the Advisory Council of “Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE Egypt)”, member of the

“Franchisees Advisory Council” of Berlitz International and the “Millennium Group” of

Dale Carnegie International (a network of the largest Dale Carnegie operations

worldwide).

Ahmed Nawara,

Vice Chairman, Al Manar Group

My name is Ahmed Abdel Alim Nawara. Born in 1975 in Cairo.I graduated from AUC

class of 97 major Business Administration and minor Economics. After graduation, I

worked with my father in our family business ( Al Manar Import and Export).Since 1975,

Al Manar has been agent and distributor of several multinational European manufacturer

specialized in auto spare parts.For 3 years I moved from one department to another till I

gained some experience in corporate life.In 2000, I expanded my father‟s business by

signing a contract with an American multinational companies called Honeywell that

owns a French brand of braking systems “Bendix”. The contract mainly allows me to

blend and bottle brake fluid for cars in Egypt under license from Honeywell and under

Bendix brand.We started the factory, Al Manar for manufacturing car fluids and spare

parts (AMCF), early 2002 and now AMCF is one of the market leaders in the brake fluid

market in Egypt. Other than brake fluid, AMCF now blends and bottles many car fluids such as

Coolants, Automatic Transmission Fluids, Hydraulic oils, Battery waters, Grease…etc.Now Al

Manar Group consists of several companies working in the automotive sector and I am the vice

chairman of the group.I am member in Egyptian Junior Businessmen Association (EJB).I attended

some executive courses such as “Kellogg-AUC Executive Development Program” and “Supply

Chain Excellence for Marketing Success” in AUC also.

Ahmed Ragab, Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Former Executive Director

of the UNDP Center for Transparency, IFC Corporate Governance Certified

Consultant and Trainer

Over the past years, Mr. Ragab initiated and coordinated the full strategy of the UNDP

Center for Transparency & Investor Relations. He turned it into a consulting body that

provides assessment and business strategic poliy frameworks for the Companies.

Mr.Ragab received his MBA in strategy, international business and marketing from

City Univerity of New York , his MPA in Public Economic Policies from York

Univerity in the UK, and his BA from the American University in Cairo, AUC. He is

currently an instructor of Business Communication and Economics for certificate and

diploma students at the the American University in Cairo, AUC. Mr. Ragab is fluent in

five languages. He visited more than 40 countries and has published numerous articles.

Prior to his current function. Mr.Ragab served at the Permanent Mission of Egypt as a

delegate to the UN . His work covered a wide array of fields , such as Security Council

issues (the Middle East Conflict – Kosovo – Iraq and Afghanistan), reform of the

General Assembly , as well as negotiated the outcome of the economic and social

council and the second committee for four consecutive GA sessions. He also

participated in the preparatory process for the World Summit on Sutainable

Development (WSSD) and led the G77 in negiotations on natural resources. As a

member of the negotiating group Mr. Ragab developed the strategy for negotiations for

the final outcome. Mr.Ragab also worked at the United Development Program (UNDP)

Headquarters in New York. He was a part of the core team that drafted two Human

Development Reports , on information and democracy in the Middle East.

Aida Sammour

Ex-President of the 2009 & 2010 SIFE World cup winning team

French University in Egypt (FUE)

A graduate of the French University in Egypt ( UFE), faculty of Management

and Information Systems, within the top five ,class of 2010.President of the SIFE

UFE team ( 2010), World Cup Champions for two years in a row, 2009 and

2010.Currently working as Quality Manager at Misr Plastics for Packing Industry.

Being a SIFE UFE Alumni, I am always dedicated to my team and serve as

Business Advisor .

Ambreen Waheed

Founding Executive Director of Responsible

Business Initiative (RBI), Pakistan

Globally recognized for pioneering work in CSR & Responsible Entrepreneurship.

Represent on governance bodies of GRI, APRSCP, UNGC, CSR expert committees

UNCTAD-ISAR ,AccountabilitySES, of ICAP and SECP. Co-founded AsiaPacific CSR

Centergrp, SAFoRB & GRLI. Taught at ESSEC France, Michigan and Wharton USA.

Authored Pakistan‟s first CSR status review (2005) and “Responsible Business Guide: A

toolkit for winning companies (2010) ” contributed to international publications and

textbooks.

Anna Pehar

Director, Calix Consulting

Anna Pehar is an independent international management consultant in the area of Executive Development. With her extensive experience in both the corporate and the academic world, she

acts as an advisor to both Business Schools and Universities as well as to Corporates and NGO‟s.

Her areas of expertise include post-graduate and executive education, program development and project management, organizational effectiveness, business development and consultative selling,

account management and effective communication. Her approach is personal and practical; when

assisting her clients in developing a business strategy, value proposition or developmental program, she focuses on the implementation, the „how to do it‟. Her starting point is always the

uniqueness of the person or organization she is working with; finding the strength that is already

there and develop it further. Anna‟s corporate background is commercial, but always in the

professional services sector with broad experience in sales and consultancy, including HR Consultancy and training and development. From there she moved into academia and was the

director of Executive Education at the Rotterdam School of Management/Erasmus University in

the Netherlands for 10 years. In that position she was among other responsible for the management of the unit and the growth and internationalization of the Custom Programs

portfolio, moving RSM high in the rankings as a credible partner in executive program

development. Her personal client portfolio included United Nations, BankSeta, Kone, Denso, GoodyearDunlop, AstraZeneca, Tesa, Leadership for Conservation Africa (LCA) and many

others. After leaving RSM she worked at EFMD (European Foundation for Management

Development) in Brussels in the role of director of Business School Services, where she was

responsible for the activities for the business school members. This included the organizatio