Yasmine Afifi has more than 12 years of in-house experience in top Fortune Global 500 Corporations in Oil and Gas services industry and in the ICT Sector. During her career, she acted as a business partner and trusted advisor to senior leadership in Egypt, U.S. and U.A.E covering multiple countries and advising on multiple jurisdictions. In her early career, she have worked for the Egyptian Competition Authority and was investigating and leading several cases including the prominent Steel Case. Yasmine is currently the Regional Corporate Counsel for Middle East at Cisco where she is leading Mega projects and strategic engagements for Cisco in the region. Yasmine has LLM Degree in Comparative and International Law from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and M.A. in European Mediterranean Studies from Cairo University Faculty of Economics and Political Science.