{"id":2,"date":"2016-07-18T20:48:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamalalgamal.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-22T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:55:29","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Prof. Hossam Badrawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Biography of Prof. Hossam Badrawi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Prof. Hossam Badrawi, a prominent physician and a well known politician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development. He is the founder and the honorary chairman of the Egyptian Council of Competitiveness ENCC<\/em><\/strong>. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encc.org.eg\/\">http:\/\/www.encc.org.eg\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 <strong><em>and chaired the OB\/GYN department in Cairo University\u2019s Medical School 2009\/2010. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Academically<\/u><\/strong>, He graduated from Cairo University kasr El Aini 1974, with an honors degree. He fulfilled his graduate studies during 1979-1983 in Wayne State University-Detroit-Michigan, in the use of scanning electron microscopy. He completed post-graduate studies at North Western University-Chicago-Illinois .In Boston University-Boston-Massachusetts, he had intense \u00a0\u00a0graduate studies in methodologies for development of curricula and study programs in education. His academic activities include the publication of more than 120 research papers and participations in 8 text books in his academic field.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He published 120 scientific papers and 7 books in his specialty and in education.\u00a0 Among the publications of Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi are the book \u201cEducation\u2026 The Opportunity to Rescue\u201d, the book \u201cAt Tomorrow&#8217;s Dreamers Caf\u00e9\u201d issued by Nahdet Misr Publishing House, \u201cDialogues with Youth for a New Republic\u201d and \u201c A Call To Think\u201d , both issued by the Egyptian Lebanese Publishing House , July 2022<em>\u00a0 <\/em>and in 2023 he published his book\u00a0 \u201cMe &amp; The mems\u201d issued by Dar El Mahrousa , Jan 2023.in 2024 he published 3 books ,\u201dDare to think\u201d issued by Dar El Maaref ,\u201dEgypt is in my heart\u201d issued by Dar El Mahrousa <em>\u200e<\/em>and \u201cThe Chimera\u201d by Modern Arab Association for publishing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, he published the third edition of his book &#8220;Education: The Opportunity for Salvation&#8221; issued by the Egyptian \u200e Lebanese Publishing House, and a collection of short stories titled &#8220;Who Am I?&#8221; issued by Madbouly Publishing House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Dr. Hossam is an artist, and he has more than 140 paintings. He published a literary book \u200econtaining a collection of his paintings under the name &#8220;Forgotten Romances&#8221;.\u200e<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><u>In 2007, Prof. Badrawi received an honorary PhD<\/u>. in science from Sunderland University in the United Kingdom, for outstanding work in higher education reform in the Middle East region. He is a visiting Professor in political science in center of Altiero Spinelli at University of Roma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>In 2014, Prof. Badrawi received a new award Honorary Fellowship <\/u><\/strong>from Cardiff University<\/p>\n<p>in the UK 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Politically<\/u><\/strong>, Prof Badrawi played an important central political role during the January revolution in Egypt. He was called for by the ex president of Egypt to chair the ruling party of Egypt NDP, on the 4<sup>th<\/sup> of February ,to save the situation, as he was always positively perceived by the political opposition and the society. He was known to be the opposition from inside and a true reformist. He announced his support to the revolution and\u00a0 resigned from the post 6 days after , when the ex president and his staff refused to listen to his political advice , to step down from presidency, and call for early presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0643\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u062a\u0627\u0646\u064a-  \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0641\u064a\u062f\u064a\u0648 \u062a\u0639\u0631\u0641 \u0645\u0646 \u0647\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u0643\u062a\u0648\u0631 \u062d\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062f\u0631\u0627\u0648\u064a\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/176464437?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Badrawi was an elected member of the Egyptian Parliament and chaired the Committee of Education and Scientific Research for five years (2000 to 2005<strong><em>). He led the education reform initiatives in Egypt and is considered to be the primary sponsor of education reform throughout the country. His initiative for the move towards quality assurance and accreditation in education has <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>changed the language and implementation of reform of education in both school and higher education. He produced 29 policy papers in education that constitute the core of all current strategies of education nowadays<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2001, he also chaired the joint committee of the Parliament for the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) legislation in Egypt and led key initiatives to ensure successful legislation of the law that was fundamental for Egypt\u2019s ability to participate in the trade agreements with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He participated in creating the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt 2004, served as a member, chaired the Social Human Rights Committee, and was the author of one of the most important reports of this council 2009, about the human rights situation in Egypt in the process of UPR.\u00a0 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upregypt-nchr.org\/\">http:\/\/www.upregypt-nchr.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is a founder member of the board of Arab Parliamentarians against Corruption; a foundation created to fight corruption in the region and created Parliamentarian against corruption in Egypt 2003.\u00a0 He also chaired an initiative for Arab Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy \u2013 Parliamentary Perspective with the UNESCO. He also chaired the Parliamentary Network of the World Bank (PNoWB)\/MENA chapter during 2003-2006, an initiative developed by the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>In the privet sector,<\/u><\/strong> Badrawi is an entrepreneur. He started the first healthcare management organizations company in Egypt that is currently one of the largest HMOs in the private sector 1989. He is also a founder, board member and strategic shareholder in Nile Badrawi Hospital, one of the largest privat hospitals in Cairo. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilebadrawi.com\">www.nilebadrawi.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Socially<\/u><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> Dr. Badrawi chairs the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development, philanthropic family-run foundation working for social and educational development, and Takatof NGO building schools and developing human resources. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takatof.org\">www.takatof.org<\/a>. He shared in founding some leading NGO\u2019s in Egypt including, The Dreamers of Tomorrow,\u00a0 \u00a0Egypt\u2019s International Economic Forum, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eieforum.org\/en\/\">http:\/\/www.eieforum.org\/en\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0American Chamber of Commerce, <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amcham.org.eg\/\">http:\/\/www.amcham.org.eg\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0Egyptian National Competitiveness council,<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encc.org.eg\/\">http:\/\/www.encc.org.eg\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong>Lead Foundation. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lead.org.eg\/\">http:\/\/www.lead.org.eg\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0, He is well known advocate for women rights, Democracy and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Contact Details:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"14%\"><strong>Email<\/strong>:<\/td>\n<td width=\"84%\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/us.mc542.mail.yahoo.com\/mc\/compose?to=hossam@badrawi.com\">hossam@badrawi.com<\/a><br \/>\noffice@<a href=\"http:\/\/us.mc542.mail.yahoo.com\/mc\/compose?to=badrawistaff@yahoo.com\">badrawi.com<\/a> \u00a0<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"14%\"><strong>Web<\/strong>:<\/td>\n<td width=\"84%\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\">www.hossambadrawi.com<\/a> <\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Facebook<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hossambadrawi\">www.facebook.com\/hossambadrawi<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter<\/strong><em>:<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<u>https:\/\/ twitter.com\/hossambadrawi<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Biography of Prof. Hossam Badrawi Prof. Hossam Badrawi, a prominent physician and a well known politician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development. He is the founder and the honorary chairman of the Egyptian Council of Competitiveness ENCC. http:\/\/www.encc.org.eg\/\u00a0 and chaired the OB\/GYN department in Cairo University\u2019s Medical School 2009\/2010. &nbsp; Academically, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Biography of Prof. Hossam Badrawi - Dr. Hossam Badrawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/biography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biography of Prof. Hossam Badrawi - Dr. Hossam Badrawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Biography of Prof. Hossam Badrawi Prof. Hossam Badrawi, a prominent physician and a well known politician, President of the Badrawi Foundation for Education and Development. 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He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. 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