Meet The Board
Our Board of Governors
2024 - 2025
Dr. Hesham Safwat
Chapter President
Dr. Hesham Safwat has over 25 years of experience specializing in HVAC systems, energy efficiency, and sustainable building design. He holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Mechanical Power Engineering from Cairo University and has been a Senior Lecturer at the British University in Egypt since 2014. From 1996 to 2014, he served as Technical Manager at Miraco – Carrier, leading innovations in HVAC design, energy modeling, and LEED-certified systems. As a key member of the Egyptian Code Committee and an International Instructor for ASHRAE, Dr. Safwat actively contributes to shaping global HVAC standards. Through research, consultancy, and leadership, he has advanced energy-efficient technologies, sustainable practices, and building performance worldwide.
Dr. Ahmed Youssef El-Assy
President Elect
Mechanical Power Engineer. Worked in the textile industry for extended years as family business before earning his PHD in Solar Energy from the University of Michigan, USA. Dr. Ahmed is an esteemed consultant in the AC field and a Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and AC professor at Ain-Shams University.
Heavily involved since 2008 in vaccine production facilities with biological safety level 3; hospitals became his speciality.
Dr. Mahmoud Fouad
BOG Memeber
Dr. Mahmoud Fouad is a distinguished figure in mechanical engineering, particularly in HVAC systems and indoor air quality. He earned his B.Sc. (1972) and M.Sc. (1974) in Mechanical Engineering from Cairo University, followed by a Ph.D. (1979) from Salford University in England.
Throughout his career, Dr. Fouad held many positions including (Professor and past chairman of Department of Mechanical Power Engineering at Cairo University, Visiting professor at AUC, Carleton University in Canada, University of California, Berkeley)
Eng. Fouad Hamad
BOG Member
Eng. Fouad Hamad is a mechanical engineer, graduated from Helwan University, Faculty of Engineering 1974 and has been an ASHRAE member since 1997, serving as Chapter president for 2 terms.
Eng. Mohamed Heider
BOG Member
Eng. Mohamed Heider is a Mechanical Engineer graduated from Cairo University in 1993 and started his career as a consultant. In his career, he obtained M.SC of renewable Energy from the BUE and earned his position as a member of the Egyptian Code Committee as well the consultant title by the Egyptian Engineering Syndicate.
Eng. Mohamed Heider served as ASHRAE Cairo Chapter President for years (2020-2021) & (2023-2024). Currently, he is the vice president a BOG member.
Eng. Mohamed Abu-taleb
Chapter Treasurer
Mechanical Engineer with long history working as first line manager in multiple well-known HVAC related local and abroad firms.
Joined ASHRAE Cairo Chapter in 2015 and become a board member in 2018. Eng. Mohamed had held several positions in the Chapter (GA chair, Ref. Co chair, RP co-chair, chapter secretary and chapter treasurer).
Currently I’m the president of MAKTECH company working in field of HVAC field.
Eng. Emad Mokhtar
BOG Member
Graduated 1980 as a Mechanical Engineer and acquired diploma in air conditioning and refrigeration from TCI, Newyork in addition to an 18-month training with TRANE USA. Currently, Eng. Emad Mokhtar is board member in power Egypt corporation which manufacture split systems and central AC, also in JAC corporation for production of commercial vehicle and passenger cars.
Eng. Ehab Mamdouh
BOG Member
Eng. Eman Abu-Taleb
BOG Member
Eng. Eman – past president of ASHRAE Cairo chapter, Regional vice chair for young engineers in ASHRAE 2020-2023 – is a strategic procurement manager graduated from Helwan university 2008 with Bsc of Mechanical engineering, took a diploma in HVAC design at Ain Shams university. Eng. Eman held many positions like a technical office manager and senior project lead.
Eng. Hossam Abdelkader
BOG Member
Graduating from Matariyeh Engineering University in 2001. Eng. Hossam built his career in programing and became one of the First Five Egyptians to earn Macromedia Flash Developer certification in 2002. Later on, he earned his Master of Science in information systems from Harding University, US.
From web applications developer and lecturer at DGX Academy to marketing at Tiba Manzalawi Group and later he joined Elsewedy Arab Cables factory where he served in the sales. Currently Eng. Hossam is the Information System director and Marketing Director at Delta DCM.
His role with ASHRAE Cairo Chapter began in 2014 as a webmaster and later joined different positions and committees to end up as a member of the board of Governers with 22 years of combined market and carer experience.