Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Hafez is Vice President for Cyber Security Affairs at National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt
Dr. Ahmed has #B.Sc. and #M.Sc., in hashtagElectrical hashtagEngineering from Military Technical College (hashtagMTC) in 1990, 1997 respectively, he has a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, hashtagCanada in 2003.
Dr. Ahmed has more than 32 years’ experience in the field of hashtagTelecommunication Systems, he is Certified as a hashtagConsultant in hashtagInformation hashtagSecuritySystems Since 2013 (Engineering Syndicate of Egypt) and was responsible for establishing and developing hashtagCryptography Research Center (CRC) (Egyptian MOD) including the management, supervision, and capacity building of center staff, and became a Head of the Center for 8 years whereby led the hashtagdesign, hashtagdevelopment of a National Encryption Algorithm, and production of different cryptosystems for the hashtagdefense and hashtaggovernmental sectors.
Dr. Ahmed worked as Visiting Lecturer/Professor in numerous top hashtaguniversities in Egypt, where he has Academic Supervision of hashtagPhD and MSc students in top universities in Egypt (30+ researcher) and has 70+ international hashtagpublications in peer reviewed hashtagscientific journals and in academic hashtagconferences.
Dr. Ahmed chairs the Executive Bureau of The Egyptian Supreme hashtagCybersecurity Council as well as a prime member of the Egyptian Supreme Cybersecurity hashtagCouncil.
Dr. Ahmed has awarded with the Second-Class Order of the Republic by the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, (in 2020) for his significant and distinguished hashtagcontributions.
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