Egypt

Ayman Ismail is an international expert in entrepreneurship and economic development. He is the Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at AUC Onsi Sawiris School of Business and the founding director of AUC Venture Lab, the top startup accelerator in the Middle East and Africa. He is also the founder of AUC Innovation Hub, a platform to connect industry and academia around innovation and R&D. He is the Chairman of the Board of Egypt Ventures (VC), PayMob (digital payments), a board member in onebank (Egypt’s first digital bank) and a co-founder, angel investor or board member in several fast-growing fintech startups. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Business of Economic Growth.

Previously, Ayman was a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, a consultant at McKinsey & Company’s New York office and the World Bank, a co-founder and managing partner at Enovio Consulting, and a Young Global Leader (YGL) at the World Economic Forum (WEF). He received his PhD in International Economic Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has other degrees in engineering, business, city planning and information technology from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and MIT.