Professor of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, Helwan University, obtained an LL.B in Law (1971) from Ain Shams University, Egypt. He obtained Higher Diplomas in Public Law (1973), Islamic Law (1974), Private Law (1979) and PhD in Commercial Law (1987) from Cairo University. He also obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property from Turin University, Italy, in 2003. As of 1987, he taught Commercial and Intellectual Property Laws at Ain Shams, Assiut, Menofia, Cairo and Helwan Universities (Egypt). He was also a visiting professor at Saint Louis University (1990/1991), and Pace University (1996/1997 and 1999) in USA. He is the founding Director of the Regional Institute for Intellectual Property established with the co-operation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in 2006 at Helwan University and the co-founder of the National Institute for Intellectual Property established in 2016 pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decree No. 1783 of The Egyptian Government has appointed him a member of several committees responsible for drafting a number of commercial legislations, one of which is the current Egyptian Intellectual Property Law. He has represented the WIPO as an Intellectual Property expert in several missions to provide advice to Arab countries while drafting their intellectual property laws; in addition to representing the WIPO in many conferences, workshops and symposiums. He is a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). He has valuable writings in the fields of commercial and intellectual property laws. Among which are: “ Fundamental breach of contract: Remarks on the manner in which the principles of European Contract law may be used to interpret or supplement Art. 25 of the CISG ” , in John Felemegas ed., An international Approach to the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) as uniform sales law, Cambridge University Press (2006) 335-339, and “ The Interpretation of the CISG in the Arab World ” , in Janssen and Meyer, eds., CISG methodology, Selier, Munich (2009) 355-374. He is also the author of the monograph Egypt, July 2009 (updated 2018), an integral part of Intellectual Property in the International Encyclopedia of Laws series, published by Kluwer Law International. He served as ‘le gal consulta nt’, ‘ arbitrator ’ or ‘ counse l’ before different arbitration centers and Egyptian courts e.g. the Court of Cassation, the Higher Administrative Court and the Constitutional Court. The President of the Arab Republic of Egypt has appointed him a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education.