Dr. Ahmed El-Sherbini was appointed as Advisor to the minister of Communications and Information Technology on international cooperation in October 2008. Dr. El-Sherbini is also director of Egypt’s National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), affiliated to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, a professor in the Electrical and Communication Engineering Department of Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering and vice chairman of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s Telecommunication Development Advisory Group. He has previously held the positions of cultural counselor and director at the educational bureau of the Egyptian embassy in Canada and vice chairman of Study Group 2 for the ITU’s Development Sector (ITU-D). Dr. El-Sherbini is a board member of Egypt’s National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), the Communication Engineers Scientific Society and the International Academy for Engineering and Mass Media Science, and a member of the Senior Technical Committee of the Engineers General Syndicate. Dr. El-Sherbini has edited and co-authored 13 books on ICT-related topics and published more than 80 scientific research papers in periodicals and for local, regional and international conferences. His honors include the First Degree Medal of Excellence from the President of Egypt in 1995, the Cairo University Appreciation Award in 1989 and the Egyptian State Award in Engineering Science in 1987. Dr. El-Sherbini obtained a Ph.D. in electrical and communication engineering from Case Western University, USA, in 1983 and an M.Sc. in communication engineering from Cairo University in 1980.