Founding Chairman of the Arab Network for Public Opinion Polls, Arab Republic of Egypt.

He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Initiative for Integrated Development (NIDA), Director of the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera), President of the Union of Arab Statisticians, and Coordinator of the Egyptian Initiative for the Right to Information.

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, a member of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences and the National Council for Women, and a professor of statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University.

He chaired the Board of Directors of Telecom Egypt from 2016 to 2025. He also served as Vice President of the Union of Arab Statisticians, Minister of Communications and Information Technology in 2011, Head of the Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet from 2005 to 2011, and Director of the Demographic Center in Cairo in 2004.

He was the lead editor of the 2016 Human Development Report on Social Justice, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He also supervised numerous opinion polls and field surveys, participated in the preparation of Egypt's Vision for Sustainable Development 2030, and was responsible for preparing the Population Strategy and the Childhood Strategy.

He has worked as an expert in the fields of poverty targeting, statistical policies, and public policy in several institutions and organizations, including the Economic Research Forum, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Development Research Center, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

He holds a PhD in Medical Statistics from Case Western Reserve University in the United States of America in 1987, a Master's degree in Medical Statistics from the same university in 1984, a Master's degree in Applied Statistics from Cairo University in 1980, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from the same university in 1974.