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Dr. Alaa Ezz

Confederation of Egyptian European Business Associations, ENI-CBC EMPHASIS project (tbc)

Dr. Ezz has worked in the sustainable development fields for over 30 years during which he designed and implemented a host of projects and established companies in Africa, the Mediterranean and Arab regions. These regional projects encompassed industry, transport & logistics, tourism, sustainable development, investment promotion, technology transfer, trade promotion, renewable energy & infrastructure, gender, HR development, access to finance and media.

After a decade ending up as regional director for North Africa and Middle East in the United Nations Trade and Technology Promotion System, Dr. Ezz founded EnviroEgypt SAE a leading renewable energies, infrastructure and utilities corporation in the MENA region.

For the past twelve years, he is the Secretary General of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce, the Union of African Chambers and the Confederation of Egyptian European Business Associations.

Moreover, Dr. Ezz is the Secretary General of the Egyptian-Russian and Egyptian-German Business Councils, the Egyptian chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce, and the Association of Enterprises for Environmental Conservation; the vice president of the Associació Mediterrània del Medi Ambient; the Chairman of the executive board of the Med-Alliance; member of the executive board of the Association of Mediterranean Chambers "ASCAME" the MENA Investment Promotion Council, and the Internal Trade Development Authority; the coordinator of Union of Mediterranean Employers Federations "BusinessMed" and Al-Ahram Regional Press Institute; and the managing editor of Environment Today and Economy Today Magazines and Terra Viva newspaper.

After acquiring his M.B.,B.Ch., Dr. Ezz has obtained post graduate degrees and conducted research in the fields of Economics and Environment. His published work includes tens of scientific papers and economic studies, hundreds of articles and several books including "Sustainability and Development, a developing economies perspective", "Investing in Egypt" “Trading with Free Trade Areas”, and "Environmental Planning for Developing Economies".