Shereen El Feki

Shereen El Feki is based in Cairo, where she works on issues related to health and social welfare in the Arab region. Half-Egyptian, half-Welsh, Shereen was brought up in Canada. She started her professional life in medical science, with a PhD in molecular immunology from the University of Cambridge. She later worked as Healthcare Correspondent at The Economist magazine, writing on biomedical research, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, international public health with a special focus on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, biomedical ethics, intellectual property rights and development. In recent years, however, Shereen has re-oriented her career towards the Arab world. Before joining the American University in Cairo, she was a presenter/reporter with Al Jazeera (English). Shereen is a senior fellow of the 21st Century Trust-Salzburg Global Seminar, the International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center at the University of Minnesota and the Royal Society for Arts and Manufactures (RSA). She is an advisor to Meedan, a Web initiative to promote dialogue between Arabic and non-Arabic speaking communities around the world. She is also a contributor to the Index of Islamic Innovation, a project which aims to map science and technology across member states of the OIC. Shereen holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, as well as an M.Phil in biochemistry and a Ph.D in molecular immunology from the University of Cambridge.