Hischam El-Agamy

Hischam El Agamy is responsible for IMD’s activities in Africa, the Middle East, and South-Central Asia. He has worked with various companies in these regions to help to develop transformational learning journeys for their managers and executives.

El Agamy’s expertise and teaching experience include strategic foresight, scenario planning, entrepreneurship, family business transformation, and private public partnership. He teaches regularly in IMD custom programs and has taught in several IMD open programs, including the IMD EMBA and MBA programs. He is also co-director of IMD’s Strategic Forum for Senior Executives.

He has contributed to advisory assignments for several governments in the Gulf region and the government of South Africa in the area of competitiveness and human capital development. For 15 years, El Agamy undertook international roles in seven European countries for major Swiss multinational corporations. During this time, he spearheaded business transformation initiatives in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Holland, and Switzerland.

He initially studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he obtained a master’s in applied geology. He received a master’s degree in applied geophysics from the University of Lausanne and his doctorate degree in the same subject from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. El-Agamy has also graduated from several IMD executive development programs.