Manal Ismail

Country:	Egypt

Manal Ismail is the Director of International Technical Coordination Department at the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt. Mr. Manal is Egypt's representative at the GAC. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the ICANN Accountability and Transparency Review Team.

Career History

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

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 Internet in Egypt for her work with the Internet access and DNS operation. She actively participates in the Global Internet Community.

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

. 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.

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.