Senior Assistant - Minister of Housing for Technical Affairs
Prof. Khalid Elzahaby
Chairman - Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC)
Dr. Sherif Hazem Mansour
Adviser - Minister of Finance for Facility Management
Dr. Karim Morsy
Adviser - Minister of Environment
Dr. Mohamed Abdelhameed
Principal for Green Buildings - Stantec
Dr. Hesham Safwat
President - ASHRAE Cairo Chapter
Dr. Ahmed A. Medhat A. Fahim
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Architect - Housing and Building National Research Centre (HBRC)
Prof. Ahmed A.Medhat A.Fahim is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Official Consultant at the Architect and Housing Institute, [AHI] at Housing & Building National Research Centre, [HBRC] , Past Director of the Electro-Mechanical In Buildings Institute, [EMBI] and Head of the MEP Technical Reviewers Committee at UTI-Institute at HBRC also. HBRC is an Egyptian Governmental Research Centre, where all building codes are prepared, reviewed, developed and published.
Ahmed A.Medhat was graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University at 1988 and got his M.Sc and Ph.D from the same university at 1993 and 1999 respectively. He started his HVAC career at 1985 before graduation as a trainee at KOLDAIR company “Governmental Manufacturing Company” which was one of the biggest and oldest HVAC equipment manufacturer and MEP contractor that related to the Governmental Public Sector, and after he graduated, he continue working till 1998 at KOLDAIR. After getting his M.Sc., he works for many international consulting firms for the design and supervision of different HVAC & Fire-Engineering projects in the Middle East. During 2002 HBRC elected him to join the researchers field team as a mechanical researcher and certified consultant for HVAC and fire engineering to participate in preparing, updating and the developments of the HVAC and Fire Codes, in addition to that, He has been participated in preparation of Ventilation Code, HVAC Arab Code, Energy Efficiency Codes and the Green-Pyramid-Rating-System, GPRS for sustainable building design and evaluation.
During the last Twenty years he has published more than sixty scientific, academic, and practical papers in international journals and conferences that are devoted to HVAC energy efficiency, development of indoor environmental quality.
While, fire-engineering researches were established and published locally for the Egyptian Authority-Having-Jurisdictions. Prof. Ahmed has established his private consulting firm during 1992 that named LUUKKI, Egypt "ASHRAE, EFPA, ES.FPE, USGBC Certified member", such firm is working for both of Prescriptive and Performance-Base designs and supervisions for different HVAC and Fire-Engineering Design projects. Now, LUUKKI has more than 25 years' experience in Egypt, Middle-East working for Continuous Educations, the design, CFD predictions, field tests with all applications of smoke-control & all others related to fire engineering systems and strategies, in addition to HVAC and climate control systems in buildings. LUUKKI become accredited Fire-Engineering and Smoke-Control Consultant firm, develops and conducts a series of smoke-control seminars for HBRC, TUV, GTZ, ASHRAE Cairo-Chapter, ASHRAE Pyramids-Chapter, and Egyptian Fire Protection Association. Finally, during the last 15 years, Prof. Ahmed “LUUKKI Director” conducted more than 30 technical articles in Fire-Engineering researches for HBRC. He is one of the authors of the HVAC & Fire-Safety-&- Protection-Codes. He has had input into various Egyptian Standards, Codes, Regulations and is currently sitting on HBRC Committees for HVAC, Energy-Efficiency, Fire Safety, Fire Engineering and Smoke Control along with a number of Egyptian Codes Committees.
Salma Hussien Osman
Head of Central Dep. For Technical Affairs & Licensing - EGYPTERA - Egyptian Electric Regulator and Consumer protection Agency
Eng. Mohamed Sultan
Chairman - Sultans for Investment & Development (SID)
Founder and vice chairman and CEO Invest mentors.
Founder and Chairman Sultan Studios
SID was established in Egypt in 2019 by the pioneering Sultans family, who have carved out a name for themselves with long-standing expertise of over 40 years in the Real -estate development industry.
SID and Invest mentors have a co-development agreement with Palm Hills Developments for Crown Central in Sheikh Zayed.
Crown Central is a vibrant shopping, entertainment, and administrative hub that emulates the finest attributes of the magical medieval Cairo, offering a differentiated variety of commercial, administrative offices, and retail through a modernized architectural language.
He was the Former CEO of Palm Hills Developments, a publicly traded company, and Chairman of its Subsidiaries. Successfully orchestrated the teams throughout A decade of upheaval, setbacks, challenges, and successes to embark on a new phase of regaining market cap and preserving the brand image and paved the way for the company expansion to become a city developer.
He Founded and presided Engineering Group for Urban Development in 1986.
Started career at OBALCO in KSA working with Bechtel and the American Corp. of Engineers 1984.
Dr. Ramy Mousa
Head of Egyptian-German Project - Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy
Proven experience with international donors (World Bank, African Development Bank, AFD, JICA,KFW and EBRD) leading the Egyptian-German cooperation for the Egyptian side. Managed and leaded a complex assignment for 5 Egyptian ministries following the World Bank policies and procedures and the governmental guidelines. Doctoral candidate- projects Management in Cairo University and holding a Master's degree focused on Public Administration from Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.
Hassan Younes
Co - CEO & Founder - GRFN
Hassan Younes is the Co - CEO & Founder of grfn, a multi-disciplinary consultancy and has over 15 years of extensive experience in the fields of Energy Efficiency, Design, Sustainability, and Project Execution and Management. Hassan has been involved in many high-end projects in the MENA region encompassing MEP designs, energy efficiency, commissioning management , sustainability and measurement and verification for new and existing buildings in the MENA region. He also was involved in energy and sustainability policy studies for many governmental entities in the GCC.
He is a trainer for the ASHRAE Global Training Centre. He is a trainer for the Association of energy engineers’ Certified Energy Manager ( CEM) course, Energy Valuation Organization’s Certified Measurement Verification Professional (CMVP) course and the facilitator for the Emirates Green Building Council Building Retrofit Program. He is an appointed Consultant for ASHRAE 62.1 Standard and is a member of the training committee for the CMVP course.
He is also the current ASHRAE Falcon Chapter president and on the technical committee and was the Vice Chair of CIBSE Regional Chapter. Hassan holds all the ASHRAE certifications.
Kiran Dharwadkar
National Sales Manager - Africa Region - Armstrong Fluid Technology
Kiran Dharwadkar takes care Armstrong Fluid Technology business in Africa region along with an additional focus on DCP projects in Middle East and Africa.
He has 15 years of wide experience in the field of HVAC and water Pumping applications.
He likes be part of projects where there is discussion around space / performance Optimisation and add value to the designs through Armstrong Design envelope solutions.
Mohamed Anees
Country Director - GRFN
Anees is the Country Director for GRFN in Egypt. He is an architect and planner with professional experience in Egypt, the USA, and the Gulf region. Mohamed has dedicated his career to bridging the gap between academia and practice in building performance and its impact on practice and real estate.
In alignment with grfn’s mission to realize clients’ visions while sustaining the built environment, Mohamed has been leading the firm’s establishment in the Egyptian market as well as serving the wider portfolio of projects across the region.
Aside from his professional practice, Mohamed has been appointed to several academic positions in teaching and research in both the US and Egypt. He has several peer reviewed publications in the fields of Environmental Design and Daylighting and has been part of various research ventures.
Ibrahim Ghosn
SVP – Operations - ENOVA
Having joined Enova since 2008, Ibrahim is the Senior Vice President of Operations.
An agile strategic leader with diversified experience in Engineering Consultancy, Operations and Maintenance, and Facilities and Energy Management, Ibrahim offers the unique combination of hands-on administration that maximizes organizational effectiveness, operations-oriented leadership that ensures efficiency, and people-oriented guidance which yields productivity.
With optimized operation through a sustainable and innovative approach, Ibrahim plays a key role in the Operations
team’s growth, while fostering commitment, trust, team spirit, and group identity.
Ibrahim is a holder of a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Engineering Management from the American University of Beirut (AUB).
Sherine Fahmy
Co-Founder - Egypt Green Building Council
Engineer Sherine Fahmy received a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The American University in Cairo, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Engineering from the same university. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Senior Management Trainer and Co-Active Coach.
She helped pioneer the beginnings of the Green Building movement in the Middle East. Starting in the UAE, she managed projects that worked on earning LEED Certification for over 70 commercial buildings and on making them more environmentally sustainable. As a LEED Consultant and adjunct faculty at the American University in Cairo, she was an active partner in the very first LEED Platinum project in Egypt and North Africa: The Credit Agricole Egypt Headquarters in New Cairo in addition to the LEED Gold certified Dar Al Handasah new premises in Smart Village, Giza and the LEED Gold certified Mall of Egypt.
Combining over 20 years of experience in environmental consulting and training with business skills coaching, she has also delivered training courses to many corporate on the area of management skills and human development. Currently she is adjunct faculty at the American University in Cairo, teaching courses attended by corporate clients and graduate university students on the areas of environmental sustainability and LEED concepts.
Sherine is Co-Founder, Board Member and Treasurer of the Egypt Green Building Council, emerging member of the World Green Building Council, a nonprofit NGO with the objective of promoting the culture of Green Building in Egypt. With the help of a group of volunteers, Sherine is laying the foundation for a strong and effective green building council, also responsible for the development of TARSHEED, the green building rating system developed specially for Egypt.
As Sustainability Consultant & LEED® Accredited Professional, Sherine is CEO of EcoStrategies for Sustainable Development, an environmental consultancy firm leading the drive towards sustainability in the built environment by supporting several LEED, Tarsheed and Edge projects in Egypt.
Dr. Jauad El Kharraz
Executive Director - Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE)
Senior Water-Energy-Climate expert. He has been the R&D Director at the Middle East Desalination Research Center, Oman (2015-2020), in charge of research programs/ projects on sustainable and renewable desalination technologies, water-energy-food nexus, climate-water-science diplomacy.. He has been projects manager at the Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector (EMWIS), France (2004-2015).
Earlier he was research at the Global Change Unit, University of Valencia (Spain). He also worked as senior consultant for Sud-Convergences (France), and Expert Evaluator of the EC DG Research & Innovation. He got MSc & PhD degrees in Earth Sciences (Physics) from the University of Valencia, Spain. He also got a Diploma in Enterprises Management & Strategy from SKEMA Business School, France. He is Co-founder and Secretary General of Arab World Association of Young Scientists.
He organized and launched an important number of scientific events and networks. He chaired the evaluation for national & regional programs, such as the Palestinian-Dutch Academic Cooperation Program on Water and the Euro-Mediterranean regional Program PRIMA. He joined the EMME-CCI Task Force on Water Resources and he is member many other international scientific boards such the Omani Energy Majlis, the International Desalination Association and the EU-GCC Clean Energy Technologies Network in Abu-Dhabi.
He is alumni of the Global Young Academy. He was nominated in 2011 by the French Ministry of High Education & Research as representative at the Intergovernmental framework for EU Cooperation in Science & Technology (TN1301). Dr. Jauad was one of 40 scientists worldwide selected for the “World Economic Forum-WEF’ for New Champions” in Tianjin, 2012. He became the founding curator of Nice’ hub Global Shapers -WEF (France).
He has published and contributed to hundreds of conferences in more than 55 countries, journals and reports in the aforementioned fields. He co-authored UNESCO Science Report 2015. He has built a strong record of attaining progressively responsible managerial positions during his 20 years international career (MENA & Europe) in relation with sustainability, climate change and management of natural resources (water, energy, agricultur.). He demonstrated efficiency in diversifying the funding of his organizations through obtaining funds from the European Commission programs (FP7, H2020, ENPI CBC Med, INCO MED, INCO NGOs, SMAP, LIFE, PRIMA, etc.) and also from international donors such as GIZ, USAID, and national ones (CSRs..)
Omnia Halawani
Co - Chief Executive Officer - GRFN
Omnia cofounded grfn as a multidisciplinary consultancy with a mission to realize clients’ visions while sustaining the built environment via progressive, functional and lucrative environmentally conscious engineering & design solutions for sustainable built environments that serve the wellbeing of your communities. The firm is driven by advanced engineering practices and innovative approaches and embeds environmental and social sustainability as integral to the operational model by embracing UN SDGs that align with our core activities in each and every project. Grfn is now based out of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Beirut, and India.
Omnia brings extensive experience in energy efficiency and sustainability consultancy services having been involved in the retrofit management of multiple large-scale projects ans consulting on related matters in policy making technical advisory services, arbitration, and other end customer perspectives.
Omnia’s combined education and background in engineering and business is instrumental in the effective management of projects and the firm. She was recognized as a distinguished alumni entrepreneur of the American University of Sharjah in the year 2014 and is a regular speaker at regional conferences and contributor to periodicals and technical magazines.
Dr. Hala Omar
Senior Sustainability Specialist - Dar Al Handasah
Dr Hala Omar has a professional experience that spans over ten years at Dar Al-Handasah, Having a passion for making an impact through her work on the lives of the citizens and visitors of cities, Dr Omar joined Dar Al-Handasah where she worked on state-of-the art mega capital and infrastructure projects. Holding true to her passion, she found it to be imperative in today’s world to tackle complex problems through a sustainability lens to maximize the outcome of the solutions she designs, for that she has been certified to be an ambassador and official trainer of Sustainable Development by Egypt’s National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development the training arm of the Egyptian Ministry of Planning and Economic Development. She is also a LEED Accredited Professional with a Building Design-Construction Specialty (LEED BD+C) and an active member in Egypt Green Building Council. In parallel to her professional journey, she has earned a Doctorate Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo. Her dissertation and research focused on rural areas in Egypt to drive forward the agenda of improving well-being for rural dwellers across economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Dr Omar has continuously demonstrated a record of research and publishing excellence, including publications in several peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and also has contributed in writing two book chapters.
Dr. Mohamed Helal
Chairman - Association of Energy Efficiency of Engineers
Ehsan Omar Raslan
Assistant Prof. in Green Arch. Department - Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development
Ehsan Omar is an architectural engineer with 15 years of experiences in both academic and professional careers.
Currently, I am an assistant professor in three well known universities in Egypt: Ain Shams, Cairo and Nile Universities. I teach courses related to economics for sustainability, economics of green building, building physics, building optimization, building design and energy efficiency, circular economy and others. In 2021, I worked an a simulation consultant in Handover company where I was responsible for evaluating the thermal comfort level in buildings in design stage and in post operational stage. I used software such as IESVE and Design Builder. In 2019, I obtained PhD degree in architecture, built environment and construction engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. During that period, I was a visiting scholar in Gotland campus at Uppsala University in Sweden. I developed a categorization method to reduce the energy consumption on district level to be applied in Cairo. From 2005 to 2016, I studied postgraduate courses in Egypt and Italy. In addition, I used to work as a senior architect in international companies such as Zuhair Fayez Partnership.
Dr. Ramy Ahmed
Assistant Professor in Energy Department - Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development
Mohamad Diab
Associate Director - GRFN
Mohammad Diab, Associate Director at grfn, is an experienced energy engineer with 12 years of professional experience in the energy sector, specializing in energy projects across MENA region.
Mohammad has extensive expertise in energy retrofit projects, energy auditing and energy management.
He holds the CEM, CEA, CWEP, CAP and PMP certificates alongside being CEA and PMP trainer.
Mohamed Heider is an HVAC consultant for various projects in Egypt, UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Malaysia, .etc.
He has almost 30 years of experience in the Design and supervision of construction of all HVAC applications including district cooling plants, hospitals, exhibition halls, mixed-use mega projects, hospitals, educational facilities, sports halls,.etc.
Mohamed Heider graduated from Cairo University in 1993 and had a Master of Science from British University in Egypt (B.U.E) in “utilizing of renewable energy in the HVAC application”
Mohamed Heider is a certified consultant from the Egyptian syndicate of Engineering since 2003.
Mohamed Heider is an ASHRAE member, a board of governor in the ASHRAE Cairo Chapter and he was the chapter president for the year 2020-2021.
Mohamed Heider is also a member of the Egyptian committee for codes related to the HVAC
He is one of the main lecturers in ASHRAE courses, workshops, and seminars in addition to the annual summits.
Eng. Badr Farouk
Controls and Energy departments Manager - Johnson Controls Arabia
Badr Farouk, Controls and Energy departments Manager JCI Arabia Egypt with over 15 years of experience as Sales and Technical support professional in Controls and light current solutions She is managing direct and indirect channels for controls and direct channel for Energy department. She is skilled at setting right action plan for each of her clients’ unique needs and committed to helping them choose best products. Throughout her career, Badr has earned the trust of several national and international companies and maintained strong client relationships that helped JCI to secure many mega projects such as Ministry of Defense Octagon, All new Ministries district and Parliament in New Administrative Capital, Monorail, Magdy Yaqoub New Cancer Hospital, 500 500 Cancer Hospital. Also, she is an expert in Digital Transformation where leveraging digital technologies to change business models and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities by promoting latest JCI IoT platform that enables the digitization of physical products and the collection of their data also provides the digital link between a company and its products and customers.
Given her extensive technical and sales skills she has been assigned to lead Energy Department in JCI Arabia Egypt to launch JCI ESCO business in Egypt to help fulfill 2030 global plan to reduce Earth temperature by 1.5 degree Celsius by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050 as per historic Paris Agreement at COP21, by working with global JCI partners to provide energy saving and energy efficiency solutions.
Eng. Mohamad Atef
Regional Energy Audit Team Leader - Johnson Controls Arabia
Mohamed Atef is the Regional Energy Audit Team Leader at Johnson Controls (Egypt-KSA). As a brief of his experience, he is an expert in proposing Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) related to HVAC replacement of HVAC systems along with HVAC control through installation Building Management System and Chiller Plant Manager.
He is also the Measurement and Verification team leader and responsible for submitting technical and financial energy audit proposals for Energy Performance Contracts for Tarshid Super ESCO and for private sectors. He was a former Mechanical Design and LEED specialist at Dar El-Handasah, Energy and Sustainability Consultant with different entities, Technical Energy Expert and Energy Auditor at United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Technical consultant to The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy and Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) specialist, Former Teaching and Research assistant at Ain Shams University Faculty of engineering.