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Our team
We have five trustees and one coo-ordinator. Samy Zalat, Francis Gilbert and Somia El Akkad have worked for more than twenty-five years in St Katherine as biologists, doing ecology and conservation fieldwork. Faraj Mahmoud ('Faraj Fox') is a Bedouin leader and businessman who takes an active role in community affairs and welfare. Our Chair, Hilary Gilbert, has led several community organizations and spent fifteen years running or working with community foundations in the UK and internationally. She has extensively researched Bedouin life and livelihoods in South Sinai. Our co-ordinator, Mohammed Khedr, is a Jebeliya Bedu from St Katherine with substantial local knowledge and understanding of Bedouin communities. Together we have expertise in management, working with NGOs, fundraising, environment and conservation, and the needs of local people. We believe we have a body of experience that will enable us to bring the mo'assessa to fruition in partnership with other local people, donors and supporters; and to build a flourishing Community Foundation that will benefit South Sinai and the people who live there in perpetuity.
Our Board
Dr Hilary Gilbert - Executive Chair
Formerly Executive Director, Derbyshire Community Foundation, UK, and trustee of Community Foundation Network UK. She researches and writes on the changing lives and livelihoods of South Sinai Bedu. Hilary is also chairs the UK-based South Sinai Foundation.
hilarygilbert@hotmail.co.uk, hilary@southsinaifoundation.org
Mobile (Egypt) 00 202 127 692692
Mobile (UK) 00 44 (0)7837401803 (English / Arabic)
 Professor Samy Zalat - Vice-Chair
Professor of Biodiversity, University of Suez Canal, Ismailiya, Egypt and Taiba University, el-Ola, Saudi Arabia. The first biologist to work in Sinai after its return to Egypt, he has spent his entire career working on the biodiversity and conservation of Sinai. (see his website). He chairs the Egyptian-based Nature & Science Foundation.
samysinai@yahoo.com
Mobile (Egypt) 0020 124 455759 (Arabic / English)
 Professor Somia al-Akkad - Treasurer
Professor of Molecular Biology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and Taiba University, el-Ola, Saudi Arabia. Somia is also a trustee of the Nature & Science Foundation.
samysinai@yahoo.com
Mobile(Egypt) 0020 124 847732 (Arabic / English)
 Dr Francis Gilbert - Trustee
Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Nottingham, UK. Francis' research concentrates on evolutionary and conservation biology, and he has spent most of his career working in Sinai. (see his website). Francis is also a trustee of the South Sinai Foundation and the Nature & Science Foundation.
francis.gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk
Mobile (UK) 0044 7950789507 (English)
 Faraj Mahmoud Faraj - Trustee
Universally known as 'Faraj Fox', he is Managing Director of Fox Desert Camp, and an active leader in Jebeliya community welfare.
Mobile (Egypt) 0020 106 987807
Camp Phone (Egypt) 0020 693 470344 (Arabic)
Co-ordinator
 Mohammed Khedr Ahmed
Before joining the Foundation, Mohammed worked with Hilary during her research; he also runs his own safari business.
mohammed@southsinaifoundation.org
Mobile (Egypt) 0103365369 (Arabic / English)
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