Sherif Kamel currently serves as a non-executive board member at Raya Holding. Dr. Kamel is the Founding Dean of the School of Business at the American University in Cairo and the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. With 25 years of experience as an education scholar and advisor in management, Dr. Kamel is an advocate of diversity, empowerment, inclusion and using a bottom-up leadership approach. He had served as director of the Regional IT Institute (1992-2001) and managed the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center. Dr. Kamel consults with government organizations and corporations, addressing organizational transformation, executive development, IT, management and strategy.
Dr. Sherif Kamel holds a PhD in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Kamel also holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and an MBA from the American University in Cairo.
Dr. Sherif Kamel is the recipient of several honors for serving the IT community, including Conf-IRM (Canada), Cabinet of Egypt (2011), and IRMA USA (1999). He is also a member of many associations, including: The AACSB International Middle East Advisory Council, Egypt-US Business Council, Eduniversal International Scientific Committee, a board member of Education for Employment and serves as a non-executive board member of the Commercial International Bank (CIB) Egypt.