Dr. Amr Ellissy
Starting his career as a T.V. Program director at Egyptian State T.V. for 2 years, then moved to MBC, the London – based T.V. Channel where he was appointed its director for 9 years. Back to Egypt, he established a liberal weekly newspaper: Elkhamis( www.Elkhamis.com)
Started a weekly documentary program at Egypt state T.V.which ran for 10 years( Ekhterak , Penetration). Moving to Dream T.V. ( private channel), where he started a social program ( One from the people ) running since 2008 till current date, for which he was awarded the UNESCO prize for Rural communication ( IPDC 2010). Meanwhile academically, he earned his master degree at (Adam Smith Univ, USA) and pHD degree in media , Cairo University. He was assigned as the ( media president chancellor) for Mr. President of Egypt in August , 2012 , till December 2012.
He has been an invited speaker and moderator for many conferences in Egypt, gulf area, Paris,England and USA. Also, he lectured for some organizations and diplomatic missions in Egypt.Now, he is the Vice Dean of Faculty of Media, MUST University and
Lecturer at Arab Academy of Maritime and Transport .He chairs the NGO which is linked to his social program, working together in different disciplines especially health and education.On September 2018, he was appointed the CEO of
ALNAHAR Broadcasting Channels.
He has been recently assigned as a Good Will Ambassador for civil society enterpreuners, and was invited by the UN ECOSOC program to address and present his endeavors in civil service( Dec. , 2015).
