About NGU

Words from the Leaders

Prof. A. Sameh Farid,
University President

Founder and President of Newgiza University, Prof. Farid was appointed as the Minister of Health, on Jan 30th, 2011, elected as Member of the Parliament in 2010, Chairman of the Education and Research Committee in the Egyptian parliament, and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al Aini, Cairo University from 2006 till January 29th, 2011.

Prof. Farid was appointed as Professor of Otorhinolaryngology in 1995. In 1998, he was elected as a Board member in the Egyptian Society of Otorhinolaryngology and as President of the Society from 2008 till July 2016. In 2006, Prof. Farid was appointed as Chairman of the Board of the Cairo University Hospitals (9 hospitals) with a total capacity of 5200 beds as well as Chairman of the board of 42 Clinical and Research Centers.

Prof. Farid was also a member of the Medical Sector Executive Board of the High Supreme Council of the Egyptian Universities. He was the Chairman of the Board of the Technical Medical Institute of the Ministry of Health and Member of the Board of the General Organization of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes of the Ministry of Health in 2010. Prof. Farid was elected as Honorary President of the Arab Society of Hearing and Balance and received many honors from different scientific societies.

Prof. A. Sameh Farid was elected in 2011 as Secretary-General of the Arab Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Society (ARABFOS). He presented a vision for a Reform Plan for Medical Education in 2006, which was approved in 2007; an action plan ongoing at Cairo University School of Medicine since that time. Prof Farid published many National and International Publications in the field of Neuro-otology and Audiological medicine, as well as offering many contributions in the domain of Education and Health reform. Currently, he is the president of Newgiza University (NGU) and Secretary-General of the Arab Federation of Otolaryngological Societies. He is also Professor Emeritus at the School of Medicine, Cairo University.

Prof. Lamis Ragab,
University Vice President for Life and Health Sciences

Dr. Ragab graduated in 1976 from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. She obtained a master’s degree (1980) and a doctorate degree in pediatrics in 1984. She served since then as a lecturer of pediatrics, assistant professor, and a full professor from 1995 till present.
She also fulfilled a Master of Health Profession Education in 2006. She was the Vice Director of the Medical Education Development Center in (2005-2006), the Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research from 2006 to 2011, and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. From 2007 till 2022, she was the Vice President of the Research Ethical Committee.
She acted as the founding Dean of Education at the newly established Armed Forces College of Medicine (2013-2016) and the Secretary-General of the Medical Sector Committee at the Supreme Council of Universities (2012-2016). She joined NGU as the founding Vice President in 2016.
She supervised 48 master’s and doctorate theses and published more than 50 papers in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology, Research Ethics, and Educational Research.
Dr. Ragab has a long-standing experience in the area of Quality Assurance in education. She served as a member of the National Quality Assurance and Accreditation Committee (Executive Office), the Monitoring & Evaluation of New Programs Project, the Continuous Improvement and Qualifying for Accreditation Project (CIQAP), and the team for development of the National Academic Standards for Medicine.
Her Professional Memberships include several scientific committees and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Ragab is multilingual, speaking German, English, and French besides the mother tongue Arabic.

Where is NGU

Designed by leading international architecture firm, Gensler, NGU wasn’t built to just be a university, but a hub for both scholarship and enterprise. The campus is situated on a designated 170,000 square meter, right at the heart of NEWGIZA development, 5 minutes away from the new Grand Egyptian Museum, 10 minutes away from the Great Pyramids of Giza, and 20 minutes from the capital’s historic Downtown.

NGU is very much a part of Cairo’s educational and cultural fabric, with the campus’s unique location representing the intersection of tradition and progress.

The Giza Plateau, Home to a Global Campus

The campus provides NGU’s students and faculty with open spaces, indoor and outdoor facilities, and a strong focus on an eco-friendly ethos. The purpose of building a campus in line with international environmental standards has been translated into the university’s environmentally friendly protocols, ensuring NGU has a lean carbon footprint, with even the roofs containing green areas that can be utilized by the student body. In addition to this green focus, NGU offers its students state-of-the-art lecture rooms, libraries, and study facilities within its buildings, while the palm-lined paths lead to green outdoor spaces containing gardens and sport fields. The brand new medical facilities –opened in 2016 – are home to 17 specialized laboratories, while the entire campus is connected using a cutting edge information technology infrastructure.

Strategic Location

Strategically set only 20 minutes away from downtown Cairo, 2km from the Mehwar Highway, and 6km from the Cairo Ring Road, NGU is located at the crossroads of each of Cairo’s main thoroughfares, moreover, NGU is located within sight of the Great Pyramids of Giza and only a few kilometers from Egypt’s New Grand Museum, connecting students to both modern and ancient Egypt on a daily basis.

NGU is the flagship education project of NEWGIZA, one of Cairo’s landmark destinations, including some of the city’s most popular and active cultural hubs, as well as a sports club and a lively downtown area filled with restaurants, shops, and cafes. NGU is well placed within NEWGIZA for students to have the best academic, extracurricular, and social experience possible.

Board of Trustees

NGU board of trustees is headed by Eng. Ibrahim Mahlab, Former Prime Minister of Egypt.

The board members are:

Dr. Ahmed Sameh Farid, President – Newgiza University

Amb. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League & Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dr. Ahmed Darwish, Former Minister of Administration Development

Dr. Mahmoud Mohey ElDin, Former Minister of Investments & World Bank Group’s Senior Vice President

Dr. Zahi Hawass, Former Minister of Archeology

Dr. Samiha Fawzi, Former Minister of Trade and Industry

Amb. Nasser Kamel, Secretary-General of the Union for the Mediterranean

Dr. Lamis Ragab, Vice President for Life & Health Sciences – Newgiza University

Eng. Salah Diab, Chairman of the Board of NG

Dr. Mohamed Shawky

Dr. Magdy Eshak, President of the Egyptian Medical Society – UK

Dr. Abdallah Ben Sadek Dahlan, Founder & Chairman of the Board of Trustees, University of Business & Technology (UBT)

Dr. Aly Hassan, Professor – Libya

Academic Collaboration

University College London (UCL)

The academic collaboration between UCL and NGU is centered on NGU’s School of Health Sciences (Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy) and School of Engineering, enhancing NGU’s academic capabilities, as well as offering world-renowned undergraduate programs, providing both the school and students with ample opportunities for development on an academic and personal level.

This collaboration ensured that the highest international standards in teaching and research are met at NGU, with highly qualified faculty members providing instruction and supervision, starting at first with three schools: School of Medicine in collaboration with UCL Medical School, School of Pharmacy in collaboration with UCL School of Pharmacy, and School of Dentistry in collaboration with UCL Eastman Dental Clinic. The collaboration with UCL was afterwards extended to include NGU School of Engineering.

As part of this collaboration, senior faculty and staff from UCL worked with their NGU colleagues in strategic planning and organization of the new programs, setting up appropriate infrastructure and education governance structures, developing curricula and learning resources, faculty and senior staff recruitment, faculty development, course evaluation and education quality assurance. Where appropriate, NGU utilizes existing UCL teaching and assessment resources to deliver its programs.

Having currently ranked 9th on the QS World University Rankings 2025, and consistently placing in the top 20 of various global university rankings, UCL is widely recognized for its research capabilities and contributions to sciences and innovations. It was rated 2nd in the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework 2021. Moreover, UCL boasts 30 Nobel Prize winners, and was recently selected as University of the Year 2024 (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024).

Right at the heart of the Giza Plateau and within touching distance of the Great Pyramids, UCL’s professors, lecturers, and staff lead the brightest young minds forward towards successful careers in their chosen fields. UCL focuses on personal development and intellectual growth, through typically small class sizes maintaining a low staff to student ratio, in line with the tutorial-based teaching methods employed by UCL globally. Constant student engagement on both a scholarly and extracurricular level ensures a heightened learning experience, spurring every student towards discovering his or her true potential and realizing NGU’s goal of achieving truly unbounded thinking.

Being London’s global university, UCL has a distinguished presence in Australia and Qatar, as well as partnerships around the world with a host of leading educational bodies, from Berkeley to Yale, and Peking University to the University of Sydney. UCL’s influence spans the globe, and it brought its worldwide expertise to NGU.

King’s College London (KCL)

Newgiza University (NGU) established a strong academic collaboration with King’s College London (KCL) to develop high-quality and contemporary undergraduate programs in the School of Economics and Political Science and the School of Business and Finance.

Through this collaboration, senior faculty and staff from King’s School of Politics and Economics and King’s Business School worked closely with their counterparts at NGU on the design and development of curricula, learning resources, and quality assurance frameworks. The partnership also supported faculty recruitment, professional development, and the establishment of academic standards aligned with international best practices.

This collaboration played a pivotal role in shaping NGU’s academic foundation and ensuring the delivery of programs that reflect global excellence in education, research, and innovation.

Milano Fashion Institute

The School of Arts & Design at Newgiza University works in collaboration with the renowned Italian design institute “Milano Fashion Institute”, which guarantees that all three programs provided by the School (Interior Design, Fashion Design & Graphic Design) conform with the international standards and are constantly up-to-date with the latest global design knowledge, techniques and trends.

An advising board from Milano Fashion Institute provides guidance on both academic and professional levels, ensuring a rich world-class curriculum that emphasizes hand-on learning, while providing international exposure to students and faculty members through regular sessions with international field experts.

The School of Arts & Design strives to provide its students with an unparalleled design experience and exposure to create world-class designers capable of exceling in both local and international design arenas.

A Video for Prof. Lamis Ragab, NGU Vice President, Talking About the Academic Collaboration with UCL & KCL

Meet the Deans

NGU’s commitment to excellence is the key driver in its recruitment and management policies. Students are taught by specialists and leaders in their fields today. This commitment begins from the very top of the university’s teaching staff, with the Deans of the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry, and extends to the rest of the university as a whole.

Dr. Lamiaa Mohsen,
Dean of the School of Medicine

National and international expert who worked with various governmental and international agencies in the field of health care, education, maternal and child welfare and human resource development.

In September 2016, Lamiaa was appointed as the Founding Dean for Faculty of Medicine Newgiza University which was the first School of Medicine in Egypt to implement the modular integrated curriculum and assessment.

Lamiaa is a member of the RUMP (Reform of Undergraduate Medical Program) committee shared among experts in the preparatory steps for the implementation of the new undergraduate medical curriculum that started in September 2019 in all Egyptian Medical schools.

Lamiaa is a member of the Pediatric Medical Council in the Arab Board since 2014. In this position she is responsible for the preparation, participating and evaluating OF postgraduate training and Assessment in all Arab Countries as well as accreditation of hospitals as training sites.

As a Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology in Cairo University, Lamiaa was involved in undergraduate teaching and research with twelve international publications in the last five years. Lamiaa was appointed as Director for the Center for Social and Preventive Medicine, Cairo University, a body that links medical higher education to the health needs of the community.

Lamiaa worked with USAID and European Union projects in Indonesia, Jordan, Yemen, and Syria in the fields of Health and child protection. Her leadership skills were solidified through attending The International Health Leadership Program in Cambridge and team-leading The National Egyptian Perinatal Program.

She was appointed 2010-2012 as Secretary-General for the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood, the highest authority in Egypt responsible for protection, promotion and monitoring implementation of Child and adolescent rights in Egypt.

Dr. Randa Elsalawy,
Dean of the School of Dentistry

Dr. Randa Elsalawy (BDS, MSD, Ph.D.) is the Dean of the School of Dentistry at Newgiza University. She received her Dental degree (BDS) from Cairo University in 1988 and embarked on her dental career as she began her residency at the same university in 1990. In 1994, she received her Master’s degree (MSD) in Restorative Dentistry from Indiana University, USA. In 1998, she moved back to Cairo University where she received her Ph.D. in Biomaterials in 2001. From 1995 to 2006, Dr. Elsalawy held multiple appointments as Assistant Lecturer and subsequently Lecturer of Biomaterials at Cairo University. From 2006 to 2013, she served as Assistant Professor until she reached full professorship in 2013. During her tenure as Professor, Dr. Elsalawy was a visiting professor, Program Director and Chair of the Biomaterials Department at the University of Modern Sciences and Arts (MSA) in Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Elsalawy has given over 1000 lectures during her career and is the author and co-author of numerous national and international publications, focusing on adhesive dentistry. In addition, she supervised the research of multiple Masters and Ph.D. candidates where she provided both tutelage and mentorship. Dr. Elsalawy also owns and runs her private practices (Osman Dental Clinic) as a Restorative and Cosmetic Dentist and is a member of the Egyptian Dental Association as well as the American Academy of Operative Dentistry.

Dr. Manal Maher,
Dean of the School of Pharmacy

Prof. Manal Mohamed Maher Hussein, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Newgiza University and professor of microbiology and immunology. She held several positions at Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University including, Acting Dean (7/2014-12/2014); Vice-Dean for Education and Students Affairs (2011-2016); Coordinator of the Clinical Pharmacy Program (2009-2011). She participated in the implementation of the Clinical Pharmacy Program, until the first graduated class in 2011. She is a member of the Promotion Committee of Professors and Associate Professors for Microbiology and Immunology.

Her research areas of interest are microbial resistance, fermentation technology and development of new vaccines and biotechnological products.

Dr. Manal was the PI investigator in two research projects covering the process development for the industrial production of Rifamycin B and the feasibility study for a cost-effective process for the production of Rifamycin B. Awarded a Patent No. (200312062) titled “Process for production of Rifamycin B using improved bacterial strain”.

Dr. Khaled A. Hegazy,
Dean of the School of Business & Finance

Dr. Khaled Abdelaziz Hegazy is a Professor of Accounting, and the Dean of the School of Business & Finance at Newgiza University. Dr. K. Hegazy graduated from the faculty of Commerce, Cairo University with a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, he holds a Master of Science and Ph.D. in Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics & Political Sciences, University of London.

Dr. Hegazy has been awarded the Fulbright’s Commission Senior Scholar Scholarship and is a visiting Professor at Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois USA), and the School of Business & Economics at the UAE University (Al Ain – UAE).

He is a member of distinguished academic and professional associations including, the Institute of Management Accountants – USA, The Canadian Academic Accounting Association, the Egyptian Society for Accountants & Auditors – Egypt, Arab Management Institute – Egypt, the Cost & Managerial Accounting Association – Egypt, and Egypt Economic Forum, Egypt.

Dr. Hegazy served as a member of the following professional organizations; The Implementation Group of the International Financial Reporting Standards on SMEs Committee, International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, IFRS, London; The Central bank of Egypt, The Committee responsible for developing a set of accounting standards related to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements for banks and recognition and valuation basis; The Syndicate of Commerce Profession, the Curriculum Committee for the development of the Accounting Profession in Egypt; The Information and Disclosure Committee; The Egyptian Capital Market Association – Egypt; The International Accounting Standards Committee, IASC, London, U.K. the Preparatory Committee for the Accounting Standards on Emerging Markets, and The Egyptian Society for Accountants & Auditors, Cairo, Egypt.

Professor Hegazy’s academic research works include publications and conference presentations and postgraduate thesis supervision on risks in financial institutions; Islamic Finance; Activity Based Costing; the balanced scorecard; The design of cost accounting systems; Accounting information systems; Strategic finance; Audit committees and corporate governance; Accounting reforms in less developed countries; the measurement and reporting of intellectual capital, and the knowledge economy.

Professor Hegazy has extensive experience in financial and management advisory, finance & banking, and auditing & corporate governance, and is a registered Consultant with the World Bank in Egypt since July 2009, and a registered Certified Public Accountant in Egypt.

Dr. Hegazy currently serves as a non-executive board member and chair of the audit committees of Misr Life Insurance, and the Administrative Capital for Urban Development “ACUD”, and previously in Barclays Bank Egypt, Incolease, and the Egyptian Resort Company “ERC”.

Professor Hegazy is also a founding partner of Crowe Hegazy, a member firm of Crowe International, registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board – PCAOB – USA.

Dr. Hala Sakr,
Dean of the School of Economics & Politics

Hala Mohamed Sakr is a Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University, since November 2015.  She was the Academic Coordinator of the English Section (2015-2018) and is currently a member in the Technical Committee for Health Economics Professional Masters and has been a member in Steering Committee of Applying and Supervising Credit Hours System at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science.

She is also a representative in the Economic Committee in EU Tuning Africa Initiative Project (under supervision of University of Deusto, Spain, the African Commission, and the European Union), Faculty of Economics & Political Sciences, Cairo University.

Dr Sakr has been a member of the Travel and Tourism Sub– Council in The Egyptian National Competitiveness Council (ENCC), since 2013.  She participated as an economic consultant in Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) / Egypt in 2016.  She was also a Monitoring and Evaluation expert in the Health Pillar in Egypt’s 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) in the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform (MPMAR), Egypt (June – July 2017).

Throughout her academic life, she has published and co-published many papers and has several publications in different areas such as; foreign direct investment, international economics, trade in services, labor migration, local economic development, inclusive growth, tourism economic impact, trade liberalization in the health sector and knowledge-based economy.

Hala’s teaching experience includes Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Economic Development, International Economics, and Managerial Economics and Knowledge Economy.

Prof. Neamat El Gayar
Dean of the School of Information Technology

Dr. Neamat El Gayar is a Professor of Computer Science at Cairo University and the Dean of the School of Information Technology at Newgiza University. She brings over two decades of academic and research experience across institutions in Egypt, Germany, Canada, and the UAE.

Dr. El Gayar graduated with honors in Computer Science from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University in 1989, and went on to earn her Ph.D. at the Institute for Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Germany, with the support of a prestigious DAAD scholarship.

She previously led the Data Mining and Machine Learning Group at the Centre of Informatics Sciences, Nile University, Egypt, and has held positions at Concordia University and the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) in Canada. Her leadership extends to the international AI community, where she served as Chair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence, organized major workshops, and acted as a reviewer for leading journals, conferences, and funding agencies, including Canada’s NSERC Discovery Grant program.

Before joining Newgiza University, Dr. El Gayar was based at Heriot-Watt University in Dubai, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, where she served as Global Director of the MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Associate Director of Research, Senior Course Leader, and Academic Board member of the Global Research Institute in Health and Care Technologies.

Dr El Gayar’s research expertise lies in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, with a strong focus on applying AI to real-world challenges. She is also an active advocate for responsible AI, ethics, and sustainability, and plays a key role in advancing diversity in tech—most notably through ongoing mentorship of women in AI and data science.

She has co-authored numerous influential publications and edited books in AI and pattern recognition, contributing significantly to the advancement of the field.

Prof. Aly Gabr,
Dean of the School of Engineering

Prof. Dr. Aly Gabr is the Dean of the School of Engineering at New Giza University (NGU). Dr. Aly Gabr is also a Professor of Architecture at Cairo University and was recently appointed Vice Dean for Education and Student Affairs at the Faculty of Engineering for a six-year term. With over 35 years of teaching experience, he received his MA in Architectural Engineering in 1989 with a thesis on Color and Form in Egyptian Vernacular Architecture. He obtained his Doctorate Degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1992 with a thesis on meaning in traditional Bahri Mamluk Architecture.

Since returning to Egypt, he has co-authored four books documenting the architectural styles of two 19th-century palaces, Abdin and el-Tahra, the famous Club Mohamed Ali, and the Bicentennial Anniversary of the Engineering School. In 2002, Dr. Gabr was appointed Commissar of the Egyptian Pavilion in the Architecture Biennale in Venice, and his work has been mentioned in several contemporary art books since then. He has also served on the jury for several national and international events and has audited several architecture programs in both private and governmental universities. Additionally, he was a member of the promotion committee for associate professors and professors in the fields of architecture and urban design and planning for six years. For ten years, he was involved in the scientific committee of NMEC, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat.

Prof. Abeer Hassan Abdo Moustafa,
Dean of the School of Arts and Design

Professor of Advertising, Graphic design. Graduated from Faculty of Applied Arts, H.U. Recommendation to publish the Ph.D. thesis at the expense of the university, exchange with academic bodies. Nomination for the award for the best scientific thesis 2003.

Secretary of the Scientific Promotion Committee of Applied Arts- SCU. Expert, Certified Reviewer and Trainer at NAQAAE and IBCT. Manager of Information and Statistics Unit, H.U. QAC. Member of Education and Learning Committee of HU Strategic Plan. Member and Secretary of Graduate Studies and Research Committee FAA. Project Member of Capacity Building for Administrative Staff in Egyptian H.E. Institutions, UNILEAD EGYPT,2016. Participated in the DIES ” Evolvement of Entrepreneurial Universities in MEMA Region”- DAAD in cooperation with Hochschulrektorenkonferenz. Assigned to submit a study on the status of advertising in Egypt. Approval of His Excellency the Egyptian President, including the establishment of the National Authority for Regulating Road Ads, the amendment of Road Ads Law to Law No. (208) 2020. Consultant of strategies and advertising planning at many governmental institutions. Develop an advertising strategy and policy on Number of Egyptian roads. Referee-Member for more than 150 scientific research in various scientific periodicals. Head of number of National and International scientific sessions. Published 36 researches and supervised 60 Ph.D. and Master thesis.

University Structure

NGU offers the following undergraduate programs:

• School of Medicine
• School of Pharmacy
• School of Dentistry
• School of Business & Finance
• School of Economics and Politics
• School of Information Technology
• School of Engineering
• School of Arts and Design

Future Schools:

• School of Law
• School of Antiquities/Archeology
• School of Nursing and Health Sciences
• School of Linguistics and Translation

NGU Quality Assurance Center

Quality Assurance center at NGU is part of NGU organization structure, led by prof. Dr. Dawlat Salem, MHPE, external evaluator at NAQAAE. The center is responsible for internal monitoring of the university programs to fulfill NAQAAE standards, preparing all the university schools to be NAQAAE ready in 2022.

Vision

Quality Assurance Center of New Giza University aspires to satisfy the international quality standards of education.

Mission

NGU Quality Assurance Center (QAC) ensure that high standards and good practice within the teaching, learning and assessment processes for NGU’s undergraduate programmes are recognized and rewarded, and problems are rapidly identified and addressed.

Accredited schools in NGU By NAQAAE:

School of pharmacy ,accredited by NAQAAE in ,24/4/2024.

Transportation

Transportation services are available at NGU and detailed schedules are announced before the semester starts.

Policies

NGU Equal Access to Lifelong Learning Policy

NGU Non-Discrimination Policy

NGU Wide Sustainability Education Policy

NGU Women Applications and Entry Policy

Smoke Free Policy

Maternity policy

Mental health policy

Compensation Policy

Complaints and Grievances Policy

Employee Rights Policy

NGU Living Wage Policy

NGU Policy on Preventing Forced Labour, Modern Slavery, and Child Labour

NGU Union Recognition and Employee Representation Policy

Paternity Policy

Policy for Outsourcing activities for third parties