Dr Sherif Hashem

Dr. Sherif Hashem is the Vice President for Cybersecurity at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA), and the Chairman of the Executive Bureau of the Egyptian Supreme Cybersecurity Council. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt (with a joint appointment at the NTRA).

Dr. Hashem’s responsibility includes supporting cybersecurity efforts at the national level, and setting up the framework for further developing the Egyptian Computer Emergency Readiness Team (EG-CERT). Successful cybersecurity initiatives and activities at the NTRA have contributed to Egypt’s advanced cybersecurity rank: 14th among 194 countries, as reported by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)/ABI Global Cybersecurity Index in June 2017.

Dr. Hashem received a B.Sc. in Communication & Electronic Engineering and a M.Sc. in Engineering Mathematics from Cairo University-Egypt, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University-USA. He also completed the Senior Executive Program at Harvard Business School-USA. Dr. Hashem authored and co-authored more than fifty five articles and book chapters in the areas of information technology, e-commerce, computational intelligence, and operations research, with applications in engineering, energy, environment, and computer sciences .

Setting up national cybersecurity framework for further developing the Egyptian Computer Emergency Readiness Team at the NTRA