Ahmed Bakry

Ahmed Bakry is an architect urban, and regional planner. He got his B.Sc. from Ain Shams University, Urban Design and Planning Department in July 2012. His accumulative ranking was the first in the department with a very good grade. He then joined the Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design double master’s program (IUSD), between Ain Shams University and Stuttgart University between 2013 and 2015. During this time he started his research on integrating local ethnic groups in regional planning, bridging the gap between the government, planners (practitioners), and society. His final M.Sc. grade with very good with distinction. Bakry worked on some architectural, interior, and urban projects. He participated in several urban and architectural competitions. Bakry participated in several student exchange programs on urbanism and future spatial developments. He attended several conferences and workshops regarding sustainable urbanism, contemporary planning, and borderland studies in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxemburg, England, France, Egypt, Canada and the U.S. Between 2012 and 2019 he worked as a lecturer assistant giving seminars and guiding projects, and as a researcher at IUSD Lab, Cairo in various research projects, all related to regional planning and regional governance. Bakry started to work on his PhD at the Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg between April 2019 till July 2023. His research was funded by the Higher Ministry of Education in Cairo MHESR and the DAAD respectively. In his PhD, he addressed the spatial regional development, networks, and territorial integration of the European border regions, especially from a cultural dimension. His work is based on theories of regional planning, borderlands, and cross-border communities. He developed an analytical framework that enables a better understanding of planning processes in cross-border regions. His Final grade was 'Magna Cum Laude', which is the best grade that can be offered from the University of Heidelberg.