Hadia H. Abdel Aziz
Dr. Hadia H. Abdel Aziz is the Vice President of Academic Services at Universities of Canada in Egypt leading all UCE entrepreneurial initiatives (EC and DMZ) and an associate professor of Entreprneurship and Innovation Management at UPEI Cairo campus. She has a blend of diversified experience in the area of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management through working as the head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation management department and the Startup development program “Imagine” at the German University in Cairo, as an advisor to the minister of Investment on entrepreneurship and SME Development, as the head of the technical office of the board of investment trustees, as a corporate and SME banker at several multinational banks, as a board member in several venture capital and investment firms, and as an independent SME consultant and startup mentor. Dr. Hadia obtained both her BA and MBA degrees from the American University in Cairo and got her PhD in the area of innovation Management from University of Stuttgart – Germany.