Khaled El-Attar

Eng. Khaled El Attar is the Deputy Minister for Administrative Development, Digital Transformation and Automation, and the Head of Information Infrastructure sector at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Egypt. El Attar has more than 35 years of experience in informatics, supervising more than 150 projects in this field in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Germany and USA. He held several managerial positions at IBM and Raya, for 28 years, and worked as a lecturer at Cairo University. Holding the position of the Head of Information Infrastructure sector at MCIT, El Attar supervises the implementation of development and modernization initiatives and projects, using IT to improve the level of automated services provided to citizens, in partnership with the state’s institutions. El Attar obtained a B.Sc. in Engineering, with honors, an MBA from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), a Master’s degree in Research from the University of Liverpool, and a PhD in Change Management at Liverpool University.