EGYPT’S POWER BUSINESSWOMEN

Elham Mahfouz

Title: CEO Company: Commercial Bank of Kuwait Mahfouz joined CBK in 2000 and was appointed CEO in November 2014. She has been working in banking and finance for approximately 30 years.

Mona Zulficar

Title: Founding Partner & Chair of Executive Committee; Chairperson Company: Zulficar & Partners; EFG Hermes A practicing attorney for over 35 years, Zulficar is a specialist in major restructuring and M&A transactions. She has handled major deals including the sale of Barclays Bank to Attijariwafa Bank.

Pakinam Kafafi

Title: CEO

Company: TAQA Arabia Kafafi has been in her current role since 2013, before which she was Chief Investment Officer at TAQA Arabia. In 2020, TAQA Arabia was forced to postpone its highly-anticipated IPO.

Reem Asaad

Title: Vice President, Middle East and Africa Company: Cisco Asaad has over 20 years of experience and oversees 2,500 employees and contractors at Cisco. The company's global revenues hit $49.3 billion in the 2019/20 financial year—26% came from EMEA.

Hend ElSherbini

Title: CEO Company: Integrated Diagnostics Holdings (IDH) ElSherbini has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare sector, of which she has spent 16 of them with consumer healthcare company IDH. In Forbes Middle East’s list of the region’s top 50 power businesswomen 2021, Egypt was the most represented country, with eight entries. These are the Middle East’s top five Egyptian businesswomen.