{"id":2376,"date":"2014-09-12T18:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/businesseducationjam\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:34:06","slug":"sherif-kamel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/businesseducationjam\/2014\/09\/12\/sherif-kamel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherif Kamel, PhD, Former Dean, School of Business at the American University in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tues 9\/30, 12pm &#8211; 1pm EST<br \/>\nForum: Cultivating Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kamel led a major repositioning of the school by adopting a multi-tier thematic approach that included entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and responsible business. \u00a0During his tenure, he initiated the process for EQUIS, AMBA and ACCET accreditations and got the school reaccredited by AACSB in 2011. \u00a0The school became ACCET accredited in 2011; AMBA and EQUIS accredited in 2014 joining only 70 business school in the world that are triple-crowned. \u00a0In addition, the MBA program ranked top by Forbes ME in 2012 and executive education open enrolment ranked 68th by the FT in 2014. \u00a0He helped establish the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation investing in Egypt\u2019s young promising entrepreneurs through supporting startups, business plan competitions, bootcamps, and mentorship becoming the country\u2019s leading educational partner in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. \u00a0He also established the university\u2019s Venture Lab becoming Egypt\u2019s primary university-based incubator. \u00a0Kamel has a long experience as an academic leader investing in human capital, building and managing executive development institutions addressing management, governance, entrepreneurial, and leadership issues. \u00a0He was associate dean for executive education (2008-2009); director of the Management Center (2002-2008) and director of the Institute of Management Development (2002-2006). \u00a0Before joining AUC, he was director of the Regional IT Institute (1992-2001) and helped establish and manage the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center (1989-1992). \u00a0Kamel is an advocate of diversity, empowerment, inclusion and using a bottom-up leadership approach. \u00a0Kamel holds a PhD in Information Systems from London School of Economics and Political Science (1994), an MBA (1990), a BA in Business Administration (1987) and an MA in Islamic Art and Architecture (2013) from the American University in Cairo. \u00a0His research and teaching interests include management of information technology, information technology transfer to developing nations, electronic business and decision support systems. \u00a0His work is broadly published in IS and management journals. \u00a0He is the associate editor of the Journal of IT for Development and the Journal of Cases on Information Technology. \u00a0Kamel is an Eisenhower Fellow (2005). \u00a0He is the executive VP of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt (2012-present); board member of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund (2012-present); and RISE Egypt (2013-present). \u00a0He is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Canada (2014-present) and Egypt-US Business Council (2013-present). \u00a0He is a founding member of the Internet Society of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/businesseducationjam\/vip\/\">Back to VIP Guests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>Sherif Kamel, PhD<\/h4>\n<h6>Former Dean, School of Business at the American University in Cairo<\/h6>\n<p><b>Tues 9\/30, 12pm &#8211; 1pm EST<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,7,25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-cultivating-innovation-entrepreneurship","category-tuesday-930","category-vip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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