Eng. Amr Hashem is the Minister’s Advisor for Communication Policies, Egyptian Ministry of Telecommunication & Information Technology. He participated in formulating the Telecommunication Master Plan for the development of the Egyptian telecommunication sector for the period 2000-2004. He also participated in setting up the framework for regulation of new services and licensing information infrastructure providers in Egypt. He is a member of the Egyptian National Committee for Trade in Services and National Committee for Trade and Transport Facilitation. Eng. Hashem headed the team that prepared for the negotiations with the WTO for joining the Basic Telecom Agreement, Information Technology Agreement and Computer Related Services. He represents Egypt in conferences and forums dealing with telecommunication protocols and standards, investment and trade policies, and regulatory and economical aspect of telecommunication technologies

Eng. Amr Hashem has been appointed in August 2004 as a non-executive board member of the state owned Telecom Egypt representing the public capital as well as a board member and a member of the Investment Committee of the Technology Development Fund, a public private partnership to establish the first venture capital fund in Egypt. Eng. Amr Hashem was a member of the team that coordinated the national and international IPO of Telecom Egypt through Cairo and London Stock Exchanges in December 2005.

Eng. Amr Hashem contributed to and participated in a number of seminars and training workshops organized by the WB, EU, USAID, WTO and other prestigious institutions in issues related to ICT technologies, policies and regulation. He has authored and co-authored a number of articles and papers about ICT developments in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East.

Eng. Amr Hashem is a NFP fellow and holder of Masters of Business Administration degree from the Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, with the focus of Strategy and Economic Policy. He is also a holder of Bachelor of Science degree in Communications and Electro-physics from Alexandria University, Egypt with Honors.

His research interests include strategic management of ICT, economics of ICT, impact of new developments in ICT on policy and regulatory frameworks, socio-economic impact of ICT and international trade in ICT.