Institution: Ain Shams University

Ayman Farid Abou-Hadid is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt and he is considered one of the principal experts in agricultural law in his country. In 2013, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and, in this capacity, he started the implementation of the food law in Egypt, also through scientific researches with Italian Universities aiming at reproducing the EU food law system in the national context. He is a member of the Board of the Research and Training Consortium on Food Safety (Rifosal) and author of many scientific publications.

Eissa Ali Abdelaziz is the Vice President of Ain Shams University for Post Graduate Studies and Research, Cairo, Egypt. He received his PhD in 1994 from Ain Shams University, Egypt and University of Maryland, USA. He has 42 published papers in national and international journals. He is a Cairo MIRCEN director, that was established in Egypt under the auspices of UNESCO/ICRO/UNEP, to serve different aspects of Applied and Environmental Microbiology in the region. He has contributions in 15 research projects locally and internationally. He joined the research team of Human Nutrition Lab, USDA, George Washington University and the National Institute of Health NIH to discover the effective and positive role of soy and flaxseed meals in the treatment of obesity and diabetes disease. He also contributed to the development of the first standard specification for the quality and safety of condensed milk, cream and butter products, in MDVA milk produces, USA.