Primary Job Title Manager of Technology Commercialization and Industry Relations Office Primary Organization 
Nile University
Location Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Female
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Heba Labib is currently the Manager of Technology Commercialization and Industry Relations Office at Nile University. From 2011 through 2014, she was the founder and executive director of NU100, a nationwide entrepreneurship initiative for techpreneurs who have developmental ideas. The initiative resulted in the establishment of 18 companies.
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2007, Ms. Labib had partnered in setting up Palm Paper, a waste paper recycling mill, where she had played multiple roles in procurement operations and logistics and later in product development and establishing the company’s sales operations. In 2004 Ms. Labib started Nile’s Gift, a company that processes and exports “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants”.
Ms. Labib has won a number of entrepreneurship awards for the aforementioned businesses from Arab Business Challenge in 2007 in UAE, Business in Development Challenge in 2006, Netherlands, and the Shell “Intelaqah for Best Business Idea” Award in 2005 in Oman. She has also and participated in several Entrepreneurship seminars.
Prior to the aforementioned ventures, Ms. Labib’s experience includes technical procurement for utility trucks components, diligent studies on utilization of rice straw waste to convert to MDF, and conducting a research study for the FAO on the “Gender Roles in the Production of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants”.
Heba Labib holds a BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oakland University, MI, and an MSc in Management of Technology from Nile University, Egypt, and is currently working on her PhD at Nile University. Heba Labib is an entrepreneur by nature with a mix of academic and interpersonal skills, enhanced with multidisciplinary and international exposure. She’s an excellent team player with highly effective communication skills.
