Baher Esmat, Manager, Regional Relations – Middle East
Baher Esmat is part of ICANN Global Partnerships. He joined ICANN in February 2006 from the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), where he had served since 2002, most recently as Telecom Planning Manager, where his responsibilities included projects relating to communications infrastructure and service development within the framework of building Egypt’s Information Society.
Baher is a former member of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG), and served as Chair of the Egyptian IPv6 Task Force until he joined ICANN.
Baher received a bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University in June 1993, and a masters degree in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo in June 1999.