Ahmed Bakry is an architect and urban planner. He got his BSc from Ain Shams University, urban planning and design department (UPD) July 2012. His accumulative ranking was the first upon his colleagues. He then joined the integrated urbanism and sustainable deign master’s program (IUSD), which is a double master’s degree between Ain Shams University and Stuttgart University between 2013 and 2015. During this time he started his work on integrating local ethnic groups in the process of regional planning and bridging the gap between government, planners (practitioners), academia and society. Bakry began his practical work while he was studying, by participating in several urban competitions. He worked as a freelancer for some architectural, interior, and urban projects. Bakry participated in several student exchange programs related to urbanism and future developments. He attended several conferences and workshops regarding sustainable urbanism and contemporary planning in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Egypt, Canada and U.S. Between 2016 and 2019 he worked as lecturer assistant at UPD, and as researcher at IUSD Cairo in various research projects, all related to regional planning and regional governance. Bakry started to work on his PhD at the Institute of Geography in April 2019. His research is funded by the Higher ministry of education in Cairo MHESR and the DAAD respectively. In his PhD he is trying to tackle the regional developmental inequalities in the global south for the border regions. His work is based on theories of regional planning, peripheral regions, and cross-border communities. By comparing the South Egyptian border region with EU border areas, he aims do develop an analytical framework that enables a better understanding of planning processes in cross-border regions.

Roles

  • Heidelberg University

    University, Heidelberg, Germany
    PhD student

  • University of Kassel

    University, Kassel, Germany
    Post-Doc Lecturer and researcher

  • Square Studio office for Consulting and Engineering services

    Other, Cairo, Egypt
    Founder and Partner

  • Ain Shams University

    University, Cairo, Egypt
    Lecturer Assistant

  • Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design double master’s program (IUSD)

    Other, Cairo, Egypt
    Tutor and researcher

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