Dr. Magued Osman () is the CEO and Director of the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research "Baseera," which ran the only transparent public opinion surveys by phone for the first Egyptian Presidential elections in 2012. Baseera implemented also the first exit poll in the middle east. Dr. Osman is a member of Egypt National Council for Women. Dr.Osman is acting as the chairman of Telecom Egypt (we), the main landlines service provider in Egypt, since 2016.
He is the former Minister of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt from February to July 2011 in the caretaker government. Before being appointed as a minister, Dr. Osman was the Chairman of the Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers' Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC).
Dr. Osman is one of the Pioneers of Statistics and national information in Egypt; He is a Professor, at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. In 2012, he led the World Values Survey in Egypt.
He has an extensive technical and consultancy experience in the fields of poverty targeting, statistical policies, and public policy for a number of prestigious local, regional institutions, and international organizations; such as Ministry of Urban and Rural Development, Saudi Arabia, the Economic Research Forum (ERF), UNIEF, the Canadian International Development Research Centre, UNDP, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Dr. Osman is the editor and lead author of 2016 Human Development Report (HDR). The report discusses social justice in Egypt.
National committees
Ministerial Group for Human Development. Advisory Committee – Ministry of Higher Education. Fund of the Civil Affairs System – Sector of the Civil Affairs Authority –Ministry of Interior. Board of Directors of the National Authority for Remote Sensing. Board of Directors of the Authority of Standardization and Production Quality Control. Board of trustees - Egypt's International University. National Committee for Information Development – Scientific Research Academy. Research Council of Population and Social Sciences – Academy of Scientific Research. Executive committee of the National Population Council. Advisory Council of the Post Graduate Education Department – Cairo's Arab Academy of Financial and Banking Sciences Advisory Committee for Planning and Statistical Coordination – Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) The Permanent Scientific Committee – National Council for Social and Criminal Research. Board of Directors of the Center for Information and Computer Systems – Faculty of Economics and Political Science – Cairo University. Information and Communication Committee of the National Committee of Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO – ELISCO - ESISCO).
Family
Born in Cairo on November 4, 1951. He has two brothers Hussein Osman and Amr Osman. He is married to Dr. Fadia Elwan Professor of Psychology at Cairo University with three sons Hesham Osman, Walid Osman and Tarek Osman.
Education
1984-1987 Ph.D., Biostatistics - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 1982-1984 M.S., Biostatistics - Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 1977-1980 M.Sc., Applied Statistics - Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. 1970-1974 B.Sc., Statistics - Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. 1967-1970 High School Diploma - Collège de la Sainte Famille (French Language School), Cairo, Egypt.
Publications
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