Nermine El Saadany is currently the Director of International Policies Department at the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA). She is coordinating the positioning of NTRA in the international arena, and the cooperation between NTRA and other regulators and international organisations. Ms. El Saadany started her career as a researcher in economics, where she conducted extensive analysis of national and international related
events dealing with economic problems and their impact on political bodies and decision-making processes.

Throughout her position as editor of the economics section at Al Siyassa Al Dawliya (International Politics Journal), which is one of the most prestigious and reliable periodicals in the field of international relations in the Middle East, she gained extensive experience in the area of research and analysis. Her experience at the journal was also broadened to website management as Managing Internet Editor.

Her next position, at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), was as a Unit Manager in the International Relations Department. This allowed her to gain experience in handling relationships with specialised agencies, drafting strategic goals and objectives, and assisting in achieving them. Her career has so far been diverse to include the following:
• Acting as the Master of ITU Telecom Africa in 2004 for all operations within Cairo and outside Egypt, and also as liaison officer with ITU headquarters in Geneva.
• Acting as the ITU Telecom Department focal point in the World Telecom in Geneva, October 2003.
• Responsible for the ‘e-message’ sent by President Hosni Mubarak to invite the world to ITU Telecom Africa in 2004, which was delivered during the first phase of the World Summit for Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, December 2003.

Ms. El Saadany holds an MA in Economics, from the American University in Cairo, and a BA in Business Administration from the Sadaat Academy in Cairo.