Kareem Hassan

Kareem Hassan is the Executive Director of the UN-ESCWA Technology Center for Development and the Coordinator of the Arab SMEs Summit. Before that, he was the Director of Youth and Innovation Program at the Global Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (Switzerland), and the Managing Director of BENAA Foundation (Egypt). Besides, he had an intensive academic career as a lecturer and researcher at Zewail University for Science and Technology (Egypt), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Switzerland). Kareem got his Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering at Ain Shams University (Egypt), Master of Environmental Engineering at the American University in Cairo, and Project Management Program for Sustainable Development at Cewas (Switzerland). Kareem has led more than 100 projects in the fields of Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development that have been implemented in 35 countries. In addition to leading four social enterprises and winning several international awards.