Mr. Gamal Mohamed SAKR joined Africa Re in July 2020 as Deputy Regional Director of the Cairo Regional Office and was promoted to the position of Regional Director in January 2021.
He started his career in 1992 in banking. He moved to insurance in 1993 and worked as Reinsurance Officer in Pharaonic Insurance. He became the Head of the Reinsurance Department in 1999. He joined GIG Egypt as Reinsurance Manager in 2000, and AIG Egypt in 2002 as Property Manager. He was recruited by Allianz Egypt in 2007 as head of general insurance.
In 2013 he moved to Saudi Arabia to Rajhi Takaful, the 3rd largest insurer of the country, as Head of General Takaful; in 2017 he returned to Egypt and joined Misr Insurance, the largest insurer in the country, as Executive Deputy Chairman (Board Member) for Insurance & Reinsurance.
Mr. SAKR holds a Bachelor Degree in Accounting from the University of Ain Shams, Cairo. He is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of London (ACII).