Dr. Amr Badawy is currently the Executive President of Egypt’s National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, the regulatory body for the telecom sector in Egypt, and a professor of electronics at Cairo University.

Dr. Badawy was previously senior advisor to the minister of communications and information technology, responsible for promoting development of the telecom sector through policy development and provision of support to all telecom-related entities, including carriers, ISPs, vendors, etc.

He joined MCIT after a nine-year tenure with GTE & General Dynamics, where he held the positions of manager and director for various telecom sector support and ICT programs in Egypt. Before this, he founded Telecomp International in Egypt in 1990, lectured at Cairo University, was a telecom consultant for several government and private entities between 1987 and 1995, and worked as a development and system engineer at Aydin Systems, California, from 1984 to 1987.

Dr. Badawy received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, California, in 1986 and holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics engineering from Cairo University.