Mohamed El Dahshan

• Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University, USA

Master's degrees, Harvard University and Sciences-Po Paris. Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, working to unlock commercial lending to entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Middle East. Lecturer, Ain Shams University. Co-Author of Tahrir Diaries. Writes weekly for Foreign Policy Magazine. Recipient, Anna Lindh EuroMed journalism award (2011). Interests: entrepreneurship support, post-crisis reconstruction, media and social media, Internet policy governance, freedom of speech, diving.