Mr. Sawiris is a Board member of the GSM Association representing Orascom Telecom Holding since January 2003. He is a member of the newly formed International Advisory Committee to the New York Stock Exchange Board of Directors (IAC). I has been appointed to jointly chair the Italian-Egyptian Business Council for 2006-2007 periods. He is also a member of both the Board of Trustees and the board of Directors of the Arab Thought Foundation, a board of Trustees member and Head of the Financial Committee of the French University in Cairo, a board member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, the Consumer Rights Protection Association and the Cancer Society of Egypt.