Ghada Amer

Ghada is Professor of Electrical Engineer & the Vice President the Arab Science and Technology Foundation, also She the Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Benha University. She holds few more positions within her profession, like the CEO and the Co-founder of ASTF innovation Lab, the Head of Electrical Engineering Department at Benha University and the CEO of the Global Awqaf Research Center.

Also because she believe on the important of R&D and innovation for community, she create an entity for research and training called Accu-Training, and another entity called ASTF Innovation Lab, to create the Ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship among arab countries, in 2016 she selected to be one of the Rolex Enterprise Awards for Innovation Jury members.

She was names in Jan 2014 as one of “Top 20 Influential Muslim Women Scientist in the World”, by an international committee residing on Muslim-Science, as an emerging champion “power woman”. And named as the “Personality of the Year”, from Muslim Science magazine, United Kingdom 2015, Also she ranked the first place for the 50 most prominent leader in entrepreneurship of the Arab woman in 2014 issued by the Sayidaty magazine, and in 2016,2017 she named one of the “the 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2016”, in the filed of science and technology, by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre.

A Chess Champion in Kuwait, she was awarded “Best Leader for Student Activity Award”, 2006 at Benha University. And, she was named as a best leader on 2002 by the Egyptian national “Institute for Leadership Development”. She received her training on Control and Instrumentation in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering and PhD. degree in Electrical Power Engineering from faculty of engineering, Cairo University. She served as a head of department (2007-2010), (2013-2014) and an S&T Advisor (2008-2010). On her academic career, she served as member of scientific committees, chairman and editor of many regional and international scientific conferences. Beside, being an editor of two international journals on her field of specialty. She received “Best Research Paper Award” CATAEE Conference, Jordan, 2004

Internationally, Ghada is active on scientific collaboration she became a member of the organizing committee (2011) for “Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine” symposium that is organized by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific and the US National Academies. She, actively, participates in many collaborative programs.

She is active advocate for socio-economic development that is based on RDI within her country and the region. She worked since 2009 as a volunteer with the Arab Science and Technology Foundation and later joined as the volunteer Manager for Women Programs. For her active participation, she was elected as a member of the Board of Directors (2011) thin the VP of the Foundation (2012 till present). Within her involvement with the ASTF, she developed and led more than 20 projects and programs to support scientific development and entrepreneurship. She during the past three years (by fundraising) was able to bring nearly $ 2 million, to support the research, development and innovation, and to support entrepreneurship activity to create jobs and to support the Arab community، for that she help to established 142 start-up from innovative ideas from the region