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A discussion on The Emerging e-commerce and Fintech landscape in Egypt

Both Egypt and China have splendid cultures and a history spanning thousands of years. As a partner of China's One Belt and One Road Initiative, Egypt and China are bound to have extensive and deep exchanges and cooperation at different levels in the future. On May 14, 2020, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee proposed for the first time "deepening the supply-side structural reform, giving full play to the advantages of China's super-large market and the potential of domestic demand, and building a new development pattern featuring mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles”. The One Belt and One Road Initiative is bound to help unlock the joints of internal and external circulation. As an important partner, Egypt is bound to be the choice of the times to promote academic and cultural exchanges. Three distinguished guests from Egypt will give wonderful speeches. They are: Dr. Ayman Ismail (Ayman Ismail is the Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo), Mr. Mahdi Al Olabi (the founder and CEO of R2S Logistics), Dr. Farid Mohamed (a lecturer at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and the CEO of Kakehashi Africa). They will discuss "The Emerging E-Commerce and Fintech Landscape in Egypt” with their view point one by one. After that, three UoM Alumni Dr. Ding Weixu, Mr. Mao Jianhua and Ms. Tracy Liu will participate in the round-table discussion.

Keynote Speaker:



Dr. Ayman Ismail

Ayman Ismail is the Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship and associate professor at The American University in Cairo School of Business and the founding director of AUC Venture Lab, the top university business incubator in Middle East and Africa. He is also a board member in several fintech startups.





Mr. Mahdi Al Olabi

Mahdi Al Olabi is the founder and CEO of R2S Logistics, a logistics technology service provider that provides e-commerce merchants with the operational and financial transaction tools to competitively scale their business.





Dr. Farid Mohamed

Dr. Farid is a lecturer at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, and the CEO of Kakehashi Africa (an NPO), a large African-Japanese business network. Kakehashi also manages Zen Ventures, a platform that connects African startups with top corporate venture capital funds in Japan.


Alumni Panelists:



Dr. Weixu Ding

Kingdee CMMRI Researcher & joint Postdoc at Tongji University. the founder of Seshat AI project.





Mr. Allen Mao

Founder of Key-Leading Consulting





Ms. Tracy Liu

Senior Manager in digital transformation, a leading Global pharmaceutical company



Date：March. 10th Wednesday/ 2021, 19:30-21:00

Language：English

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