Bio:

Maissa Azab is NAMES Executive Director after serving as NAMES Secretary for ten years since the network’s inception in 2006. For twelve years, Maissa has endeavored to consolidate NAMES’ vision established by its Founding Members and developed by its Board of Directors. Maissa’s mission is the growth of the network through the development of its services and projects, including significant collaboration with other international networks. Under Maissa’s direction, NAMES has revamped its image to demonstrate the network’s maturity as it embarks on its second decade and launches a new era of regional and international cooperation.

Maissa Azab has also been the Head of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Cultural Outreach Sector Publications Unit since 2013, after leading the Publications Team at the BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) since 2006. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1999 and joined the PSC in 2004, where she initiated and has since been the Editor-in-Chief of SCIplanet, the first Egyptian printed and online popular science magazine.