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Manal Ismail is the Director of International Technical Coordination Department at the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt.

'''Manal Ismail''' is the Director of the International Technical Coordination Department at the [[NTRA|National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority]] of Egypt and the ICANN GAC Chair.<ref>[http://gac.icann.org/gac-representatives/ms-manal-ismail gac.icann.org]</reF> Manal served as the Vice Chair of GAC in 2009.<ref>[http://mcit.gov.eg/MediaPressSer_Details.aspx?ID=1585&TypeID=1 mcit.gov.eg]</ref> She also serves as the Vice Chair of the [[ICANN Accountability and Transparency Review Team]].

She represents Egypt at the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) where she has served as a Vice Chair in 2009, and serves as the Vice Chair of the ICANN Accountability and Transparency Review Team.

She is also a member of the Egyptian working group on Internet governance and the [[ISOC|Internet Society Chapter]] of Egypt.

Prior to her work at the NTRA, she has worked, since September 2001, at the Telecom Strategic and Technical Planning Department of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology where she has been involved in a number of successful initiatives that served Egypt’s national plan of “Building its Information Society” in terms of increasing Internet and PCs penetration nationwide as well as setting a national Broadband Strategy for Egypt.

Before she joined NTRA, she worked at the Ministry of Egypt in the Telecom Strategic and Technical Planning Department.

Ms. Ismail started her career at the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center as a network engineer in charge of DNS operation and Internet access and was among the team who introduced the Internet to Egypt. Ms. Ismail is also an active member of the global Internet community. She has been involved in setting up an Arabic domain names test bed, establishing the “AfriNIC mirror center for technical operation”, launching a Regional Resolution Server in Egypt and most recently has also been involved in launching Egypt’s new Arabic ccTLD.  

She started her career as a Network Engineer working at the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center. Ms. Manal is considered as one of the pioneers of the Internet in Egypt for her work with the Internet access and [[DNS]] operation. She actively participates in the global Internet community.<ref>[http://igf.wgig.org/cms/funding/593-manal-ismail igf.wgig.org]</ref>

In addition, Ms. Ismail is also a member of the Egyptian working group on Internet governance and the Internet Society Chapter of Egypt. Ms. Ismail holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from University of Louisville (UofL), Kentucky, USA and B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

Ms. Ismail has particpated in several internet tasks like setting up an Arabic domain names test bed, launching a regional resolution server in Egypt and most recently has also been involved in launching Egypt’s new Arabic [[ccTLD]]. She has also worked in establishing the [[AfriNIC]] Mirror Center for Technical Operation.<ref>[http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/98-biographies/593-manal-ismail intgovforum.org]</ref>

 

She was a speaker at [[ICANN Lisbon]].<ref>[http://lisbon2007.icann.org/node/146 lisbon2007.icann.org]</ref>

Manal holds a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA and B.Sc. degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/manal-ismail/1a/389/363 linkedin.com]</ref>