Nashwa Abdelbaki

Nashwa Abdelbaki is an early Internet pioneer, bringing Internet connectivity to Egypt in the early 1990s. As part of this process, she helped build Egypt's national networks both locally and regionally and took technical lead of the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN).

Based on experience gained earlier, her professional experience was extended to the regional and international level to help with deploying and developing the regional networking architecture - something that involved bringing the know-how of networking infrastructure and media connectivity to the local and regional domains of African, Arab and developing areas.

From 1993 to 1999, she led, managed, organized and helped with teaching and educating a number of the international IT conferences and networking workshops (e.g., ISOC/INET) that targeted the methodologies and techniques to study, build, manage and maintain national networks. She was one of the four that submitted the first proposal to establish AfriNIC.

Academically, she is a Doctor of Engineering in the field of multimedia networking from Ulm University, Germany. Supported by her German DAAD scholarship, she led a research program focused on the future integrated multimedia networking architecture and services, with emphasis on synchronized adaptive interactive multimedia communication systems, compression techniques, media simulation, QoS, MPLS, DiffServ ...

Currently, Dr. Abdelbaki is Vice Executive Director, EUN, and advisor for IT, Secretary General, Supreme Council of Universities (SCU).