Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean succeeded Sir Michael Weir as Chairman of the British Egyptian Society on 21st March 2006. She has worked with the Inland Revenue Staff Federation from 1977 to 1989 and was General Secretary of the First Division Association from 1989 to 1997 until her appointment as a working peer. An active member of the House of Lords where she is highly respected, her appointments have included Minister of State for the Middle East and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords. She stepped down from the government in May 2005. She is a non-executive Director of British Airways, is member of the Egyptian British Business Council, and works with a number of other non-for-profit organisations including the International Committee of the British Red Cross.
Married with one son, she divides her time between her apartment in London, her home in Vernham Dean, Hampshire and an extensive overseas travel programme on business and other interests.

Dr. Ahmed El Mokadem - Vice Chairman 
Dr. Ahmed M. El-Mokadem was born in Egypt in 1941 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1963.  Dual nationality (Egyptian/British) for 35 years.  Educated in Egypt (BA Econ, 1961 Cairo University), and United Kingdom (Ph.D Econ, 1968 Manchester University).  More than 35 years academic consultancy and business career worldwide.  Adviser to many governments in economic policy, oil and defence, including, but not limited to, the US Government,  and the United Kingdom Bank of England, Treasury and Foreign Office, and many governments of oil producing countries. Published and/or supervised many books, articles and research projects on United Kingdom monetary and fiscal policies, North Sea oil, OPEC, and the world oil market.  Contributed to the early economic thinking of Margaret Thatcher in the early 1970’s.  One of the founders of the British-Egyptian Society, is the current Vice-Chairman, a position he has held since the society’s inception.  A member of many professional and charitable societies. Recently retired (February 2004) to focus on writing, lecturing, public services and social and charitable work.

Mr. Noel Rands - Secretary
Noel Rands was the Midland Bank Group Representative, Middle East, based in Cairo from October 1980 to November 1984. During his time there he became Chairman of the British Community Association and Chairman of Cairo Players, during which time he was shot by Lady Weir, the British Ambassador’s wife as he was being stabbed by a member of the British Council; there’s acting for you! He became Secretary of the British Egyptian Society, at the request of the then Chairman, Sir Michael Weir, on 23rd May 2003. Currently he is Treasurer of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Exhibition Trust and a Trustee of the HMS Whimbrel Trust.

Mr. Mohamed Nasr Farid - Treasurer 
Mohamed Nasr Farid was appointed Treasurer of the British Egyptian Society in May 2005. A self employed Accountant, he graduated in accountancy from Cairo University in 1982 and qualified as an accountant in Cairo in 1987. A proud father of 3 boys, he is a keen sportsman and enjoys playing handball and swimming.

Mr. Peter Mackenzie Smith - Acting Deputy Chairman

Mr. Said Bassily

Mrs. Gihad Moustafa

Mr. Vivian Davies – alternate with Dr. Neal Spencer

 Dr. Zohni Farrag

Terry Bishop graduated from the universities of London and Leicester. He was Registrar and then Director of Institutional Development at the School of Oriental & African Studies before moving to the International Office at University College London and then to be Director of External Relations at Birkbeck College. He is currently coordinating the activities of The Bloomsbury Colleges, a consortium of six research-intensive, medium-sized colleges of the University of London. For several years he was a Governor and then Chair of the Alexandria Schools Trust. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and lives in London and Antwerp.

Miss Mira Takla

Anne Hodson-Pressinger has visited Egypt some 50 times and has numerous friends there, she has lived in the USA, Persia, South America and travelled extendisively around the world. She is a trained Art Restorer having trained at the Uffizi Gallery. Was an event organiser for 20 years and became a queen of the charity balls and concerts raising many millions for several charities over thirty years. She now sits on the Peat Board of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, which oversees the daily running of the hospital. For 25 years Anne has sat on the Ladies committee of the European Atlantic Group, which is a political dining forum for the leaders of this world to come give speeches always followed by good debate. Anne is now the vice-chairman. She has just taken over as the President of the Ladies of Charity, the oldest charity in the world started in 1601. She speaks 4 languages and is currently writing a book on her experiences as a career, which combines memories about her mother, the Dowager Lady Torphichen, going from the days when she shared a professor with the King of England to when Anne went on numerous visits to stay with the Shah of Persia and went to ballet classes at Covent Garden with her nanny.'

Prof. Magdy Ishak-Hanna
Professor Magdy A Ishak FRCS CCIM -Was born in 1947 in Suez, Egypt, is an orthopedic surgeon and honorary Companion Chartered Institute of Management, and is currently the President of the Egyptian Medical Society and chairman of the Scottish-Egyptian Association. He teaches health care management to post graduates. Magdy is CEO of the Covenant Healthcare Group, which owns and operates Transform Medical Group, the largest provider of cosmetic surgery and aesthetic medicine in Europe, the Abbey Hospitals Group, and the Churchill group of psychiatric clinics.          
Magdy is married to Rita Gad el Rab, a consultant anaesthetist, and has one daughter, Lorraine, a maxillofacial surgeon.

Prof. Amir Azmy

Dr Noel Brehony joined the FCO after doing a PhD on Libya. He was  Counsellor at the British Embassy in Cairo in the mid 1980s. He was later  Director of Middle East Affairs at Rolls-Royce and represented Rolls-Royce on  the board of its joint ventures in Egypt. He has been Chairman of the Middle  East Association and President of the British Society of Middle East Studies. He  is the current Chairman of Menas Associates (which produces a weekly report on  Egypt), Chairman of the Council for British research in the Levant and a member  of the advisory board of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS.

Dr. Hossam Abdalla

Mr. Wagdy Soliman

Dr. Elisabeth Kendall

Mr.Assam Allam

Dina Soliman - Joined the executive committee of the British Egyptian Society in January 2007. She is a Category Manager in Compass Group, the world’s biggest foodservice organization, and part of the senior management team in her division. Dina has an MBA degree from GSU in the United States with specialization in Marketing. She was head of the UK chapter of SWIM (Sustaining women in Management) informal global network in her previous job.
She was also president of one of the UK “Toastmasters” clubs, an imitative promoting public speaking.  Outside of work, Dina plays volleyball at least once a week and is very interested and a regular attendant of a variety of cultural activities.

Mr. John McHugo

Dr. Neal Spencer, Assistant Keeper (Curator), Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Dr. Spencer is responsible for Late Period and Graeco-Roman antiquities from Egypt, and is director of the British
Museum Expedition to Kom Firin, in the western Nile Delta.

Observers

Mr. Mohamed El-Molla - Egyptian Embassy

Mrs. Cathie Bryan - Friends of the Petrie Museum
Cathie Bryan has degrees in Anthropology from Hunter College, CUNY, and in Egyptian Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.   She writes and lectures about the Egyptian Revival in art and architecture, and conducts
walking tours centered on the subject in Paris and London.   Cathie is a committee member of the Friends of the Petrie Museum.