Dr. Amr Badawi
Dr. Amr Badawi is currently the Executive President of the National Telecom Regulatory
Authority (NTRA). He is also a professor of Electronics at Cairo University.
Before that he served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Communications and
Information Technology, where he handled the development of the Telecom Sector. He was involved in the policy development and in providing support to all the telecom entities such as the ISPs, vendors, etc…
Dr. Badawi joined MCIT after a nine-year tenure with GTE & General Dynamics.
There, he acted as Program Manager and in several other technical positions in support of the Telecom Sector Support and the ICT programs in Egypt.
Prior to his tenure at GTE he founded Telecomp International in Egypt in 1990.
He also taught at Cairo University and was a Telecom consultant for several government and private entities from 1987 - 1995.
Dr Badawi worked as a development and systems engineer at Aydin Systems, California from 1984 to 1987.
Dr. Badawi holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University, California and obtained both his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in
Electronics Engineering from Cairo University.