Lamees El Araby,37, graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Economics Department, Cairo University. 

She earned her Masters and PHD Degrees in economics from the same university, specializing in Euro Mediterranean studies. 

Lamees started her career as junior researcher in the Egyptian Cabinet, she contributed in several number of researches and surveys. 

She was selected among young Egyptian leaders by the German government, represented by the German institute for international cooperation (GIZ) to have a full scholarship and to provide a research project in the field of Renewable Energy jointly with the Egyptian Government.

After obtaining her master’s degree she worked as an assistant lecturer at many universities in Egypt. Currently, 

Lamees is a full-time lecturer at the Economics Department at the Egyptian Chinese University. She is also a visiting professor at many other Egyptian Universities. She is one of the youngest professors to teach the master’s program of Business Administration, at Swiss School of management Cairo, Eslsca University and the Arab Academy of Science and technology. 

Lamees is a certified professional trainer, from Warnborough College UK. She is a freelance trainer and training and development consultant for several firms in different industries.

Lamees is also a mother of an eight years girl called Layan. She believes that the best investment is investing in yourself.