Prof Nancy Booker
Dean, Graduate School of Media and Communications
Aga Khan UniversityHead of Corporate Affairs and Strategic Communications, Roche Pharma Egypt
Ahmed Magdi is Head of Corporate Affairs and Strategic Communications at Roche Pharma Egypt, with nearly 20 years of experience across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and international markets, including Roche’s global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. His work spans corporate affairs, public policy, market access, communications and patient advocacy.
He has led global patient partnership initiatives involving more than 1,500 organisations across 110 countries and helped build collaborations with the World Health Organization, international patient associations and local partners. In Egypt, his work has supported initiatives across hepatitis C, oncology, haemophilia, neuroscience and universal health coverage. He is focused on how effective partnerships and health policy can help innovation deliver lasting value for patients, health systems and the wider economy.
Ahmed holds a BSc in Pharmacy, an MBA in Marketing and Management, and a diploma in Health Economics and Modelling. He has completed executive studies in corporate strategy at Cambridge Judge Business School and in AI and data science through the GITEX and Stanford University programme.