Adel Guindy

Adel Guindy, an Egyptian Copt, is President of the Board of Coptic Solidarity. He is also President of Solidarité Copte (France) and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Freedom Forum (USA, Egypt), Le Monde Copte (France) and Egyptian Democratic Solidarity (Egypt).

He has been an activist for several years and frequently writes on political transformation in Egypt, the Coptic issue and Islamism. He has authored several articles in English (MERIA and other publications), three books in Arabic, and co-authored one book in French. He was a senior editor of Egypt’s Coptic community weekly Watani.

Previously, he had a long international management career with a large technology company in the energy sector.