Karim Haggag is a Senior Advisor at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Cairo. He advises clients on positioning and partnership development in Egypt, as well as investment opportunities in the country.

Mr. Haggag is a Senior Advisor at LYNX Strategic Business Advisors, Egypt’s leading government relations and public policy consulting firm. He is a career Egyptian diplomat with over 25 years of service. He was Director of the Egyptian Press and Information Office in Washington, D.C.; served in the Office of the Presidency in Cairo, where he was responsible for economic policy coordination; and served in the political section of Egypt’s embassy in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for political-military affairs and the Middle East peace process.

In addition to his diplomatic assignments, Mr. Haggag was also a visiting professor with the Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He teaches as a professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, and is a non-resident fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Haggag is a graduate of The American University in Cairo and has a master’s degree in war studies from King’s College in London. He speaks English and Arabic.