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How Can Egypt Be a Digital Hub?
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The webinar will feature Hani Girgis, CEO and Managing Partner of the Deloitte Innovation Hub in Cairo. Dr. Rabab El-Mahdi, Associate Professor of Political Science at The American University in Cairo and Director of Alternative Policy Solutions (APS), will moderate the session.
The webinar discusses opportunities for youth in the Information Technology sector and explores how Egypt can become a hub for exporting digital services. It will also review the experience of the Deloitte Center, which specializes in providing technology services.
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Hani Girgis
Hani is the CEO and Managing Partner of the Deloitte Innovation Hub in Cairo and a Senior Partner in the UK firm. Hani has over 25 years of experience in delivering large and complex data & technology programs across the UK and Middle East.
Hani is also the Global Digital Lead for Infrastructure & Capital Projects. In this remit Hani’s focus has been on the programme management, planning, design, implementation & delivery of large-scale Data Driven technology programmes in the Infrastructure & Capital Projects space, covering both private and public sector clients like HS2, Home Office Emergency Services Network Program, Expo2020, Crossrail, Saudi Aramco, Thames Tideway Tunnels and Ministry of Defence.
As a leading thinker in his field, Hani has held key industry roles including European Chairman of AIIM’s Executive Leadership Council.
Rabab El Mahdi ’96, ’98
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
The American University in Cairo
Rabab El Mahdi is an associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, where she wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. Her field of specialization is comparative political economy and development, with a focus on Latin America and the Middle East. El Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political economy of social policy. Before joining AUC, she worked for several developmental organizations, including Non-governmental organizations and United Nation agencies. Previously she taught at Yale University and was a recipient of a number of fellowships at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency. She is also the recipient of a number of research grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Currently, she leads AUC's research project, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS). She serves on the boards of a number of civil society and professional organizations, including the Arab Political Science Network (APSN).
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