About me
Christine Arida is Strategic Advisor to the Executive President and Board Member at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt. She has over 30 years of experience in areas related to Internet development, telecom regulations and digital public policies. She is appointed board member of NTRA since November 2021. During her work at NTRA, Ms. Arida has led a number of strategic projects. She championed the drafting of Egypt’s National Broadband Plan “eMisr” in 2011 and launched its implementation in 2013. In 2021 Ms. Arida created NTRA’s Center of Experts and supervised its work over 2 years, and in 2019, she established the Strategic Planning sector and supervised its work over 3 years. In 2017, she created the cross-functional team on IoT and M2M regulations and led its work over 3 years, and in 2014, she helped launch the “DNS Entrepreneurship Center” and Egypt’s IDN ccTLD “dotMasr” in 2010. From 2001 to 2006 Ms. Arida worked for the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, where she participated in drafting “Egypt’s Broadband Agenda 2004 – 2007” and “Egypt's Telecommunication Master Plan” in 2004. Ms. Arida is appointed member of Egypt’s Supreme Council for Culture, Committee for Digital Culture and Cultural Infrastructure since 2021. She is lead expert on Internet governance and represents the government of Egypt at the UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF MAG) since 2007 and at the Governmental Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN GAC) since 2017. Ms. Arida is co-founder of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, board member and founding member of the Internet Society Chapter of Egypt, and founding member of the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC). Ms. Arida started her career at the Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center in 1992, where she was among the team who first connected Egypt to the Internet. She holds a B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.
