BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Sherif Kamel is an assistant professor of MIS and associate director of the Management Center at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Previously, he was the director of the Regional IT Institute (1992–2001) and the training manager of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center (1987–1991). In 1996, he was a co-founding member of the Internet Society of Egypt. Dr Kamel has many publications in IT transfer to developing countries, eCommerce, human resources development, decision support applications, and knowledge management. He serves on the editorial and review boards of a number of IS journals and is the associate editor of the Annals of Cases on Information Technology Applications and Management in Organizations. Dr Kamel is currently the VP for Communications for the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA). He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and The American University in Cairo (Egypt).

Ahmed Hassan graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. He began his career as a systems analyst in the area of electronic payment systems in the Egyptian Banks Company for Technological Advancement. In 2000, he moved to Citibank Egypt as a project manager responsible for electronic retail banking systems. In 2001, he got his MBA degree from Maastricht School of Management (MSM).