Fayez Mariam (Ms), AFS Egypt

Stakeholder Group: Civil society

Region: Africa

Biography

Fayez has been an active volunteer in AFS Egypt, a nonprofit organization that promotes international/ intercultural exchanges, and currently serves on its Board of Directors.

She has teaching and training experience in the fields of crisis management and social media in multicultural contexts, intercultural learning and online communications. Her interests include volunteerism and exploring emerging issues related to the development the Internet and its impact on members of the younger generation.

Fayez holds an LLM in intellectual property rights from the University of Turin, Italy and the WIPO Worldwide Academy; and a BA in journalism and mass communications from the American University in Cairo.

Fayez has a 12 year experience in media relations for government in Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.