Mohamed I. Shaker

Biographical Information
H.E Mr Mohamed Shaker is chairman of the board of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, (ECFA). He was Egyptian Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1988-1997.

"In 2002, Dr Shaker became Chairman of the Board of the Regional Information Technology Institute (RITI), an affiliate of the Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Centre (RITSEC), Cairo. In 2006, he was chosen Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Center for Middle East Studies, Cairo. As of 2009, Ambassador Shaker was designated member of the Board of The Diplomatic Institute , Egyptian Foreign Ministry. Ambassador Shaker is also a member of the Egyptian International Law Society . Ambassador Shaker  was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in 2001, a charity organization. As of the outset of 2008 , he was also elected as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Magdi Yacoub Foundation for Heart Research.

"In 2002, he became a member of the Higher Council for Policies of Egypt’s National Democratic Party (NDP). He is a member of the Party's Energy and Egypt and the World Committees. Ambassador Shaker was also selected in October 2004 as a member of the Court on Values for a two-year period. As of June 2009, he is a member of the Board of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority. Ambassador Shaker held the position of Egypt’s ambassador to the United Kingdom (1988-1997); to Austria and Egypt’s Governor on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna (1986-1988); and to the United Nations in New York as Deputy Permanent Representative of Egypt (1984-1986), and Deputy Representative of Egypt to the United Nations Security Council (1984-1985). Ambassador Shaker completed his studies as Docteur es Sciences Politiques at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, in 1975, after having acquired the Licence en Droit (LLB) from Cairo University in 1955. On 22 August 1982, Ambassador Shaker was appointed Representative of the Director-General of the IAEA to the UN in New York, a post he relinquished on 31 December 1983..."


 * Cofounder, British Egyptian Society
 * Director, Orascom Telecom