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Dr. Amany Asfour

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Dr. Amany Asfour

Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, and holds a Master & M.D. degree in Pediatrics at the National Research Centre of Egypt. Within a few years, she was able to establish a company for medical equipment with more than 30 brands. She realized the importance of the economic empowerment of women and established the Egyptian Business Women Association (EBWA) in 1995.

Dr. Asfour also started the African Alliance for Women Empowerment with focal points all over Africa as well as the Afro-Arab Network for Women Empowerment. Their main goal is to promote young generations of women entrepreneurs in Africa and to give guidance to women business owners of small & medium-sized enterprises. Dr. Asfour than established The Federation of Business & Professional Women BPW, Egypt. Dr. Asfour was elected the Chairperson of the Human Resources, Science & Technology Cluster, ECOSOCC (Economic, Social and Cultural Council) of the African Union, the FEMCOM-Egypt Federation of Business Women Associations in the COMESA Region and the COMESA Business Council.

She serves as the President of the Organization of Women in Trade (OWIT), the Mediterranean Congress for Business & Professional Women, and the African Organization for African Heritage and Culture. She is the Secretary General of the African Society for Scientific Research & Technology and the Vice President of the International Federation for Business and Professional Women 2014-2017. Dr. Asfour is awarded many awards from Egypt, Africa, Arab World, and from all over the world.

Key Leadership Positions

President of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW) from 2018 to date
Chair of COMESA Business Council since 2014 COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa) until 2019. Dr. Amany is the first Woman to be elected and chair this organization, which is the apex Body of Private sector in COMESA. As a chair she lobbied for the Government Procurement policies with Heads of States. 30 % of Government Procurement goes to SMEs Women, Youth and Disabled. Dr Asfour also implemented a project for Corporate Procurement and trained 480 SMEs half of which are women to supply big corporates and export in COMESA Countries.
Chair of FEMCOM 2007-2015 (Federation of National Associations of Women in Business in Eastern and Southern Africa) a COMESA Institution. Lobbying for gender policy and integration of economic empowerment of women in gender policy.
Chair of Human Resources, Science and Technology Cluster of African Union ECOSOCC (Economic, Social and Cultural Council) 2008 together with BPW Egypt Dr. Amany organized in collaboration with UNESCO the African Congress for Women in Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She managed to attract funds for a group of young women innovators.

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