Prof. Ismail is a professor of Environmental Planning and Design. He is a Fulbright scholar with a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, the USA in 1998 and holds two Masters, one from UCL in 1991 and the other from OSU. He is a certified planner of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He earned his bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from Cairo University. Prof. Ismail served twice as the Architecture Department Chairperson at the Faculty of Engineering at Fayoum University. He taught at the CAAD (College of Architecture, Arts and Design) at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and the College of Environmental Design at King Abdulaziz University (Jeddah). He traveled around the globe and was awarded several post-doctoral scholarships including DAAD Deutsche Academic Exchange Junior Scientist Grant (in Koln, Germany), the Erasmus Mundus EU Fellowship in ITC (Holland), and the Chinese Government Scientist Award in (Wuhan, China). He served as the Program Director of the School of Business at Nile University. His research is in Urban Development, Innovation in Architecture Education, and GIS. He is the founder of the Architects Got Talent which was taught at MSA/Greenwich, MUST, and Cairo University. His practice covers consulting a wide range of planning projects in local private and international planning projects including for the UNDP, UNEP, Swiss Development Fund, and World Bank as well as the General Organization for Physical Planning, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Irrigation, and the Arab League. He has published over 45 papers in international journals and conferences. His philosophy of teaching that guided his career is “involve me and I understand”.