Dr. Ekram Fathy Abdel-Gawad, Senior Advisor to the Minister for Human Resource Development and Training has extensive experience as a researcher, consultant and professor of engineering. Dr. Abdel-Gawad received both his Master’s of Science (MSc) and Doctoral (PhD) degrees from North Carolina State University in Operations Research in 1980 and 1983 respectively.

Since 1984, Dr. Abdel-Gawad has held the post of professor of engineering and computer science in several prestigious universities including Cairo University, the University of Alexandria and the Egyptian Military College. Over the years he has supervised numerous MSc and PhD degrees of students in both Cairo University Faculty of Engineering and University of Alexandria Faculty of Engineering. Dr. Abdel Gawad is currently a distinguished professor of Engineering Mathematics (Operations Research and Computer Science) at Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering.

Dr. Abdel-Gawad’s experience in research is equally as impressive as his academic experience. Since 1978 Dr. Abdel-Gawad has participated in research under grants from NASA, IBM, the US Army, the US Navy and Bell Labs. His research interests include Optimal Designs and Control, Optimization Techniques, Modeling and Simulation, Computer Communication Networks, Queuing Modeling, Networks of Queues, Information Systems, Production Systems, Construction Management, Project Management, and Stochastic Systems and Applications of Systems Theory to Real Life Problems.

Dr. Abdel-Gawad was responsible for the design and development of a specially tailored PERT /CPM Package for ECG Users Database Techniques and Multi–Calendar Facilities including Resource Leveling and Management. He also participated in the development of an ECG Data Base Management System to Enhance the Utilization of Computer Facilities (Data General Model MV 7800).

Throughout his eventful career, Dr. Abdel-Gawad published various articles in professional journals and periodicals besides publishing research papers. Among his publications is a paper titled “The Multicasting in MACAW Protocol for Mobile Cellular Computer Networks” The Egyptian Computer Journal, ISSR, Cairo University, Volume 28, No. 1, pp. 160–181, 2000, and “A Proposed solution to the problem of Multicast in MACAW ”, Bulletin of Science, Cairo University, Volume 68, pp. 93–102, 2001.

From the year 2000 to the year 2004, Dr. Abdel-Gawad was Director of Human Resource Development and Training Programs at the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. He was director of several important programs at the ministry such as the Information Technology Clubs program, the Skills Development program and the Technological Business Incubators program, in addition to being a consultant to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology. Since 2004, Dr. Abdel Gawad has been Senior Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology for Human Resource Development and Training. In addition, he is currently a member of the board of the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) and a member of the board of trustees of the Information Technology Institute (ITI).