Key skills and expertise

Bringing over five years of experience in food safety, logistics, and risk management, the expert has served as a Food Safety Inspector and team leader at the National Food Safety Authority. Key qualifications include expertise in HACCP, GMP, and GWP, complemented by proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. Responsibilities have included leading inspection visits, ensuring compliance with food safety standards, and managing data entry tasks. Career highlights include creating checklists for inspections and coordinating missions. The expert has also engaged in international capacity-building initiatives with Land O'Lakes International Development, focusing on quality management systems.

Project experience and donor exposure

The expert has collaborated with Land O'Lakes International Development in international development cooperation projects. This collaboration involved capacity building through courses and seminars on quality management systems and legislation and regulations of the National Food Safety Authority. The thematic areas covered included food safety and governance, with activities focused on national and sector-specific scales within Egypt.

Sectors and geographic focus

With a background in logistics, food processing and safety, research, audit, agriculture, and risk management, the expert has worked extensively in these key sectors. As a Food Safety Inspector at the National Food Safety Authority, responsibilities included leading inspection visits and ensuring compliance with safety standards. The expert's interdisciplinary knowledge spans biotechnology and food safety, with a focus on enhancing quality management systems. This professional experience is primarily country-specific to Egypt, addressing both national and sector-specific needs. The expert has engaged with local governance and cultural dynamics, applying in-depth regional knowledge to both national and sector-specific projects.

Languages and education

Fluent in Arabic and English, the expert utilizes these language skills in professional settings such as in-country work and collaboration with multilingual teams. These competencies have supported roles in food safety inspections and international development initiatives. The educational background includes training in biotechnology techniques at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute in Egypt. Additional training encompasses methods and techniques in biotechnology at the Theodor Bilharz Research Institute and a primer-design and PCR troubleshooting workshop at the Ain Shams Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology. The expert has also undertaken training in basics and techniques of blood banks hematology at the Theodor Bilharz Research Institute.