Samia MELHEM
Lead policy specialist ICT for development | USA | The World Bank Group
Samia MELHEM is a lead policy specialist ICT for development. She chairs the eDevelopment Community of Practice, and leads ICT unit’s knowledge and learning program while coordinating the WBG ICT projects in Africa region. She is an international expert on egovernment , her projects focus on improving Public sector delivery to citizens and businesses; and on creating the enabling environment for societal transformation and governance. Samia contributes to research on eGovernment best practices. She led, amongst other, the eProcurement Reference guide, the Gender and ICT toolkit, the ICT Components guide and the Telecoms Regulatory toolkit. One of the eGovernment projects she supervised, eRwanda, won the Technology in Government Award (TIGA) sponsored by UN and the Government of Finland in June 2011. She worked in different regions (Africa, Europe, Asia and MENA); sectors (financial management, public sector reform, education, health, agriculture, innovation) and in more than forty countries. She has degrees in Electrical Engineer, (BSEE); Computer Sciences (MS), and MBA (Finance).
