AUC Alumnae Counted Among the
100 Most Powerful Arab Women

Nada Tantawi '85 serves as senior communications officer at the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development. She has more than 25 years of experience as a writer, editor and translator for a variety of donor-funded development projects, non-governmental organizations and Radio Cairo. Tantawi holds a bachelor's in mass communication from AUC, a diploma in business administration from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. She is currently pursuing a master's in Arabic literature from AUC.

Amr Sheta '89, '94 is executive vice chairman of the board of directors and co-CEO of Orascom Development Holding A.G. Sheta began his career in 1989 at Chase National Bank Egypt and was instrumental in establishing its investment banking arm, Commercial International Investment Company, and running its proprietary private equity fund. He holds a BA in economics and a master's in management from AUC. He also holds a diploma in project appraisal and investment management from the Harvard Business School.

Tamer El Naggar '93 is chief executive officer at Synovate Middle East and North Africa. His experience encompasses leading key client accounts, overall research design, as well as championing key research solutions and strategy and business development. El Naggar is the elected Egypt representative of the European Society of Market Research as well as the North Africa and Middle East representative of the Association of European Market Research Institutes. He is also co-chairman of the core marketing committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, of which he has been a member since 2001.


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