Tarek Kamel

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Tarek Kamel (8 May 1962 – 10 October 2019) was an Egyptian politician and computer engineer expert in global Internet governance issues. Tarek Kamel was born in Cairo, Egypt on 8 May 1962. He graduated from Cairo University with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and then received an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the same school. From 1989 to 1992 he pursued his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Kamel started his career as a network support engineer for the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, then an assistant researcher at the Electronics Research Institute. Returning to Egypt from Germany, he became manager of the Communications and Networking Department at the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC/RITSEC), and gained a professorship at the ERI. It is during this period (from 1992 to 1999) that he established Egypt's first connection to the Internet, steered the introduction of commercial Internet services in Egypt and founded the Internet Society of Egypt. Kamel joined the ministry of communications and information technology since its formation in October 1999, where he had been appointed senior advisor to the minister following his pioneering efforts in ICT. He was board member of Telecom Egypt from 2000 to 2004 and a board member of Egypt’s Private Public Technology Development Fund (TDF) to support start ups and incubators in ICT from 2002 to 2004. Kamel served as the minister of communications and information technology from July 2004 to February 2011.