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SUMMARY:Entrepreneurship Best Practice panel: Entrepreneurship Best Practi
 ce Lessons for Middle East and North Africa - Dr Shima Barakat\, Research 
 and Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
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DESCRIPTION:*Dr Shima Barakat*\, Research and Teaching Fellow at the Centr
 e for Entrepreneurial Learning\, is guest speaker at an entrepreneurship b
 est practice event for Middle East and North Africa.\n\n*Date:*	31 Mar 201
 1\n\n*Time:*	19:00 - 20:45\n\n*Venue:* Imperial College Business School\, 
 LTUG\, Tanaka Building\n\n*Campus:* South Kensington Campus\n\nSimon Stock
 ley\, Full Time MBA Programme Director and Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneur
 ship at Imperial College Business School\, will be facilitating the panel 
 discussion with *Dr Shima Barakat\, Dr Mamdouh Barakat and Charbel Aoun*. 
  This event will bring together entrepreneurs from *Imperial College Busin
 ess School* and other entrepreneurial groups\, including the *Cambridge Ju
 dge Business School London Alumni Group* and *the American University in C
 airo Alumni Association*.\n\nTickets are £10 per person. Guests of alumni
  are very welcome to attend. Visit http://bit.ly/hCUVcF to purchase ticket
 s.\n\nPlease note: If you purchase more than one ticket\, please email the
  name of your guest to alumni-business@imperial.ac.uk so that we can be su
 re your guest is on the registration list for admittance to the event.\n\n
 *Guest speakers*\n\n*Dr Shima Barakat* is an engineer with a PhD in strate
 gy\, an MBA and almost 15 years of teaching experience in the UK and abroa
 d. A graduate of the American University in Cairo (AUC) and recipient of t
 he President’s Cup in 1995\, Shima founded a UK company for entrepreneur
 ial research and consultancy for universities\, foreign aid organisations 
 and businesses\, as well as two social enterprises in the US and Egypt. Sh
 ima reviews for several journals and her current research interests lie in
  sustainable entrepreneurship and in exploring the impacts of entrepreneur
 ship education. She has a particular interest in the training and developm
 ent of entrepreneurial women. Shima currently teaches at Cambridge Univers
 ity as a fellow of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL).\n\n*Dr 
 Mamdouh Barakat* is a banker and has founded a number of entrepreneurial b
 usinesses across the MENA region and in the UK and grown them to industry 
 niche leaders. Mamdouh is an LSE graduate.  One of his leading outfits\, M
 BRM\, MB Risk Management\, provides a full portfolio of cutting-edge deriv
 ative pricing software for industry players. Mamdouh developed the world-f
 amous UNIVERSAL Add-ins. With more than 30\,000 users world-wide\, the UNI
 VERSAL Add-ins are the most widely-used derivative software for Trading\, 
 Risk Management and Arbitrage (Convertibles\; Bonds\; Exotics\; Options\; 
 Futures\; Swaps).\n\n*Charbel Aoun* is a Director at Cisco Services.  Char
 bel has extensive experience in technology innovation\, start-up company f
 ormation\, innovation-based economic development initiatives and planning\
 , and Community transformation using technology . He is an industry figure
  in the field of government transformation\, mainly e-Voting\, e-Democracy
 \, e-Government\, Connected Real Estate\, and Smart+Connected Communities(
 S+CC).  Currently he leads Advanced Services S+CC Practice for European ma
 rkets. S+CC is a global initiative that uses the network as the platform t
 o transform physical communities to connected communities to enable econom
 ic\, social and environmental sustainability. Charbel Sits on the European
  Acceleration Board and co-leads the European S+CC GTM PMO with a dotted l
 ine to Cisco Global S+CC Board.\n\n*Simon Stockley* is Director of the Ful
 l-Time MBA programme at Imperial College Business School and a Principal T
 eaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship. He has founded and successfully harves
 ted several commercial ventures. In 2007 Simon co-founded HERA\, a charity
  that provides entrepreneurship training and mentor support for trafficked
  women. HERA currently works in London\, Georgia\, Armenia and Ukraine.\n\
 nFor further enquiries\, please contact *Imperial College Business School 
 Alumni Relations Office*:\n\nE: alumni-business@imperial.ac.uk\n\nT: +44 (
 0)20 7594 0825        \n\n\n
LOCATION:Imperial College Business School\, LTUG\, Tanaka Building
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