Yasser Abou-Ouf is a freelance writer who was educated in Egypt and the US , worked in many countries in the Middle East, and currently lives with his wife in Canada. Abou-Ouf was trained as a Mechanical Engineer at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and worked for several years in manufacturing, managing production line projects and operations, at the Procter & Gamble company in Egypt. Following an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he switched to the banking industry where, at the International Finance Corporation, he helped lead loan and equity investment projects in several Arab countries and in Pakistan. He is currently a Director in Trading Risk Management at CIBC Bank in Canada.
