Karim Haggag is a Senior Advisor at ASG, where he advises clients on positioning and partnership development in Egypt, as well as investment opportunities in the country.

Mr. Haggag is a Senior Advisor at LYNX Strategic Business Advisors, Egypt’s leading government relations and public policy consulting firm. He is a career Egyptian diplomat with over 25 years of service. He was Director of the Egyptian Press and Information Office in Washington, D.C.; served in the Office of the Presidency in Cairo, where he was responsible for economic policy coordination; and served in the political section of Egypt’s embassy in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for political-military affairs and the Middle East peace process.

In addition to his diplomatic assignments, Mr. Haggag was also a visiting professor with the Near East and South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. He teaches as a professor of practice at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, and is a non-resident fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

He is a graduate of The American University in Cairo and has a Master’s degree in war studies from King’s College in London. He speaks English and Arabic.

Mr. Haggag is based in Cairo, Egypt.