Board of Directors

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Al-Batran

  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of HISS ( Higher Institute for Scientific Studies )
  • ,He held many political positions, including:
    • Membership of the People’s Assembly and the Shura Council from 1976 until 2004
    • Membership of the Nile Valley Parliament Union (Arab Republic of Egypt – sisterly Republic of Sudan),
    • Honorary President of the National Council of Arab and Egyptian Tribes
  • He held many economic and social positions, including:
    • Founder and member of the Board of Directors of the National Development Bank from 1985 – 1990
      Member of the
    • Board of Directors of the Egyptian Red Crescent from 1985 until now,
    • Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nahdet Misr Association,
    • Vice President of Chambers of Commerce
    • Vice President of the Egyptian Council for African Affairs
    • Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nahdet Misr Real Estate Development Company,
      And at the academic and educational level
  • His Excellency was chosen as the exclusive agency for open education programs – Cairo University in the Nile Valley Basin countries.
  • He participated in many local and international conferences
  • Dr. Mohammed Al-Batran and his wife a. Dr.. Khadija Jaafar has founded the Higher Institute for Specific Studies since 1995
    His Excellency also recently established a social club,
  • Finally, Dr. Mohamed Al-Batran, the official sponsor of the Egyptian Children’s Choir and Orchestra, in cooperation with the international maestro Salim Sahab and the Charitable Society for Child Welfare under the auspices of Giza Governorate and the Ministry of Youth and Sports
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Prof. Dr. Khadiga Gaafar

  • Dr. Khadija Jaafar is a professor at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University
  • Member of the Permanent Promotions Committee at the Faculty of Science, Cairo University,
  • She is the chair of the animal ethics committee at Cairo University
  • Founder and academic advisor to the Higher Institute for Qualitative Studies since 1995 until now.
  • At the level of civil work experience, she held the position of vice president and founder of the Nahdet Misr Educational Association
  • Member of the Education, Development and Children Committee headed by the wife of the former
  • President of the Republic, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak.

Dr. May El Batran

On the political and parliamentary level:

  • Member of Parliament in the previous session 2015-2020
  • She was elected as the youngest founding chair of the Communications and Information Technology Committee, and she was also elected as an agent for the same committee in the Egyptian Parliament.
  • She was also a member of the Politburo for the first and largest parliamentary coalition in the modern era, “the Egypt Support Coalition” in 2016,
  • She was elected from among Parliamentarian Fellows the President of the Parliamentary Network of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
  • The first woman parliamentarian to chair a dialogue session at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, December 2018.
  • Dr. Mai Al-Batran is the only parliamentarian to have spoken in the French Parliament at its conference entitled “The Euro-Mediterranean Middle East of Terrorism” in April 2017.
  • Dr. May Al-Batran taught at the Command and Staff Institute and the Air Force Institute, and was honored by the two ancient institutions.

On the economic and technological level:

  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Giza Chamber of Commerce.
  • Member and coordinator from the Egyptian side of the Egyptian-Kuwaiti Business Council
  • Founding member of the Egyptian Federation for Electronic Games in 2010, and joined the International Federation of Electronic Games
  • Member of Communication Association, Chamber of Information Technology Industry.
  • Honorary president of the Egyptian Youth Hostels Association
  • Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Council for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprises
  • Member of the Egyptian Red Crescent Board of Directors
  • Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the Egyptian Junior Business Association
  • A consultant for technology support and education at the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jeddah since 2005,
  • The youngest member of the Arab Thought Forum headed by Prince El Hassan bin Talal,
  • Dr. Mai joined the American Chamber, and has visited the United States of America and its capital (Washington) more than 35 times during the past ten years, and contributed to strengthening relations between it and Egypt in various fields such as, political, economic, and cultural.
  • Dr. Al-Batran is the founder and chairman of TMA for Educational Administration, Investment and Development, TMA is the Education, Development and Training Company of the Family Enterprises Group and is the first educational company in Egypt to obtain an integrated ISO certificate according to international standards,
  • Dr. Al-Batran established and chaired the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Sustainable Human Development, the social responsibility arm of the group, to support employment and empowerment of youth and women, entrepreneurship and innovation in 2010.
  • In addition to membership in a number of businessmen associations and charitable institutions.

On the academic level, Al-Batran worked:

  • The position of the Academic Supervisor and International Relations Officer in the Higher Institutes for Qualitative Studies, the family institution with four institutes and 15,000 students and the equivalent from the Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities, and it was established in 1994