Mohamed Kassem

Chair, World Trading Company

Before pursuing business opportunities in the private sector, Mohamed Kassem had a Foreign Service career for 15 years. His last post was a Commercial Councilor in the Egyptian Embassy in Washington D.C. from 1985-1989. Kassem is now Chairman & CEO of World Trading Company –Egypt, a major textiles and apparel sourcing organization and Nanotech International a total solar energy solution provider in Egypt. He is also Chairman of Baseera the first independent public opinion research center in Egypt and International Building Systems and Equipment Company (IBEC). Kassem serves as a Vice Chairman of Africa Cotton and board member of Textile Federation ACTIF and International Textile Manufactures Federation ITMF. He is also a board member of the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI). Over the years, Kassem help founding and served as a board member in a host of the other companies span different industries such as textile, ICT, energy and industrial real estate development. He had also helped establish and serves on the board of different NGO’s. He served as a Chair for Garments Export Council from 2012-2017 and Vice Chairman of Egyptian National Council of Textile for the same period.