EnterpriseAM | Egypt

Climate financing incoming. More Red Sea tourism projects. Domty could be heading to KSA. El Sisi in Doha.

Morning Drive is your daily download of the essential headlines shaping Egypt. From business policy and finance to the latest in tech, all in under 10 minutes. Hosted by ‘Synthetic Salma’ — an AI-powered version of our own Executive Editor Salma El-Saeed. 

You can read the full newsletter on the website: https://enterprise.news/egypt/en 

Morning Drive is brought to you by Madinet Masr, GRANITE Financial Holding and Bonyan for Real Estate Investments. 

Learn more about how you can advertise with EnterpriseAM by emailing Moustafa Taalab [email protected]

And check out our other show Making It, where we speak to CEOs and entrepreneurs about building a great business in the region: https://omny.fm/shows/making-it 

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Ras El Hekma infrastructure. Ariston inaugurates USD 20 mn factory. EUR 10 mn PPP support fund.

Morning Drive is your daily download of the essential headlines shaping Egypt. From business policy and finance to the latest in tech, all in under 10 minutes. Hosted by ‘Synthetic Salma’ — an AI-powered version of our own Executive Editor Salma El-Saeed. 

You can read the full newsletter on the website: https://enterprise.news/egypt/en 

Morning Drive is brought to you by Madinet Masr, GRANITE Financial Holding and Bonyan for Real Estate Investments. 

Learn more about how you can advertise with EnterpriseAM by emailing Moustafa Taalab [email protected]

And check out our other show Making It, where we speak to CEOs and entrepreneurs about building a great business in the region: https://omny.fm/shows/making-it 

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Gov’t completes census of state-owned companies. IMF mission coming in October. Tariffs on imported steel products.

Further reading: A look at the draft state and government budgets for the FY 2025-26: https://shorturl.at/IECFS

Morning Drive is your daily download of the essential headlines shaping Egypt. From business policy and finance to the latest in tech, all in under 10 minutes. Hosted by ‘Synthetic Salma’ — an AI-powered version of our own Executive Editor Salma El-Saeed. 

You can read the full newsletter on the website: https://enterprise.news/egypt/en 

Morning Drive is brought to you by Madinet Masr, GRANITE Financial Holding and Bonyan for Real Estate Investments. 

Learn more about how you can advertise with EnterpriseAM by emailing Moustafa Taalab [email protected]

And check out our other show Making It, where we speak to CEOs and entrepreneurs about building a great business in the region: https://omny.fm/shows/making-it 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GERD officially inaugurated. EGP inches higher. El Khatib in Brussels.

Morning Drive is your daily download of the essential headlines shaping Egypt. From business policy and finance to the latest in tech, all in under 10 minutes. Hosted by ‘Synthetic Salma’ — an AI-powered version of our own Executive Editor Salma El-Saeed. 

You can read the full newsletter on the website: https://enterprise.news/egypt/en 

Morning Drive is brought to you by Madinet Masr, GRANITE Financial Holding and Bonyan for Real Estate Investments. 

Learn more about how you can advertise with EnterpriseAM by emailing Moustafa Taalab [email protected]

And check out our other show Making It, where we speak to CEOs and entrepreneurs about building a great business in the region: https://omny.fm/shows/making-it 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The wait is over. You asked for an audio version of EnterpriseAM, and it's officially here.

Morning Drive is your new 10-minute download of the essential business headlines shaping Egypt.

Hosted by ‘Synthetic Salma’ — an AI-powered version of our Executive Editor Salma El-Saeed — you get our rigorous journalism that’s always on point, delivered on time in a consistent voice every morning.

Episodes drop daily starting 14 September 2025. 

Special thanks to our launch partners: Madinet Masr, GRANITE Financial Holding and Bonyan for Real Estate Investments.

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For our sixth and final panel, we brought on the guys who we think are likely to be Egypt’s first climate billionaires by building one of the most exciting of Egypt's climate startups — Shift EV,  which efficiently and cost-effectively converts fleets from internal combustion engines into electric vehicles. We spoke with its co-founder and CEO, Aly El Tayeb, who started Shift EV in his basement, and Karim Hussein, managing partner at Algebra Ventures, and one of Aly’s first investors.

Participants:

Aly El Tayeb (Linkedin), co-founder and CEO, Shift EV.

Karim Hussein (Linkedin), managing partner, Algebra Ventures.

Interviewed by: Hisham Abdien, executive editor, Enterprise and Patrick FitzPatrick, editor-in-chief, Enterprise.

You can read our coverage of the panel here: https://climate.enterprise.press/stories/2022/12/14/shift-ev-and-algebra-ventures-on-how-to-build-a-usd-bn-climate-business-91113/

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We interviewed on stage Leslie Reed, former mission director for USAID in Egypt and current director for Jordan. Leslie discussed the role development finance has in moving the needle on climate  — including a dive into how USAID is trying to help us save the coral reefs along the Red Sea coast. She also discussed the importance of developing human capital, the need for business and regulators to work together to expedite initiatives, and whether grants or blended finance would work best to support the business of climate. 

Participants:

Leslie Reed (Linkedin), mission director for Jordan (former Egypt mission director), USAID. 

Interviewed by: Hadia Mostafa, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, the Enterprise Company, and Patrick FitzPatrick, Editor-in-Chief.

You can read our coverage of the panel here: https://enterprise.news/news/story?storyId=eb943e86-f689-461b-9297-3ebd510cdbd7

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The massive re-plumbing of the global economy to become more climate-friendly comes at a very high cost. So, how are we going to fund it all? In come the banks. Banks are no different than the rest of us: They want to know where the opportunities are. They worry about not doing enough, but also about being accused of greenwashing. They want to be part of the solution. So, how are they contributing and pushing companies and clients to be more sustainable?

Participants:

Todd Wilcox (Linkedin), CEO and Deputy Chair, HSBC Egypt.

Tarek El Nahas (Linkedin), Group Head of International Banking, Mashreq.

Nader Aboushadi (Linkedin), Group Treasurer, Dar Group.

Interviewed by: Patrick FitzPatrick, Editor-in-Chief. Moustafa Bassiouny, Partner, The Enterprise Company.

You can read our coverage of the panel here: https://climate.enterprise.press/stories/2022/12/07/getting-into-the-nitty-gritty-of-climate-finance-at-enterprises-climate-x-forum-90399/

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EFG Hermes Research Managing Director and Head of Strategy Simon Kitchen joins us on stage to talk about how business leaders across global growth markets are coping with climate change — and the macro factors that are both shaping opportunities and constraining room to act. Simon covers markets ranging from Egypt to Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Kenya and regularly speaks with senior management from companies across the full spectrum of industries, from banks to electronics assemblers, garment markets to food producers. 

Participants:

Simon Kitchen (Linkedin), MD and Head of Strategy, EFG Holding Research 

Interviewed by: Hadia Mostafa, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, the Enterprise Company, and Patrick FitzPatrick, Editor-in-Chief.

You can read our coverage of the panel here: https://climate.enterprise.press/stories/2022/12/08/how-companies-across-global-emerging-markets-are-dealing-with-climate-change-90562/

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We dive deep into what the business leaders in the climate industry in Egypt and the region have to say about how the private sector is adopting greentech, where they see the opportunities and what they’d like policymakers to do to encourage further participation. Key takeaways include: There’s appetite for climate — particularly in adaptation, what policies they’d like when it comes to green energy, and how climate could be the big export opportunity for Egypt.  

Participants:

Amr Allam (Linkedin), co-CEO, Hassan Allam Holding

Mohamed Ismail Mansour (Linkedin), CEO and co-founder, Infinity

Sherif El Kholy (Linkedin), Partner and head of MENA, private equity at Actis

Interviewed by: Salma El-Saeed, senior managing editor, and Patrick FitzPatrick, Editor-in-Chief.

You can read our coverage of the panel here: https://enterprise.press/stories/2022/12/07/what-business-leaders-think-of-the-business-of-climate-in-egypt-90427/

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