Walaa Elagami in a black suit standing by a window overlooking the city at sunset

Walaa Elagami

Curious by nature.
Built by experience.
Leading what comes next.

Financial Markets & Banking · Digital Transformation · AI · Building Althèque

02Roots

“Cairo is where my story begins — a place of contrasts, movement, ambition and constant change, and the environment that shaped my curiosity about people, business and how things can work better.”

Cairo, Egypt

EGYPT

Cairo · Foundation

ESLSCA University

Digital Transformation · MBA

“From understanding the world around me — to understanding how technology can transform it.”

03Experience

“From Cairo, the questions took me further.”

01 · Financial Markets

Learning to read risk.

An early chapter in decision-making under pressure, where incomplete information meets constantly moving numbers.

02 · Banking

Understanding how institutions work.

Years inside banking shaped my understanding of governance, trust, risk and what it takes to make change last. It became a way of thinking I still carry every day.

03 · France

A different perspective opened up.

Studying beyond Egypt introduced me to new environments, people and ways of thinking.

Walaa Elagami at a certificate ceremony in Paris

04 · Spain

Learning through another lens.

Barcelona challenged me to let data lead a decision, not simply support one.

Walaa Elagami at a certificate ceremony in Barcelona

“The places changed. The questions kept growing.”

04Perspective

Different worlds. One perspective.

Somewhere between them, I found my direction.

Walaa Elagami in a white blazer, thinking at her desk
01

Banking

Trust, risk and people in motion.

02

Transformation

Better ways to make change work.

03

Technology & AI

Tools for clearer, faster thinking.

04

Building

Learning shaped into something useful.

05Build

At some point, curiosity becomes action.

Walaa Elagami in an olive blazer

For years I worked on transformation from the inside — understanding the problem, making the case and helping change happen. Then I wanted to build it, not just describe it.

That became Althèque Technologies — an innovation company in Cairo working across technology, talent and transformation.

altus — high, elevated.
-thèque — a place of gathering and knowledge.

A gathering place for elevation: of ideas, of talent, of technology.

Because technology should extend what people can do, not replace it.

Co-founder & CEO

Explore Althèque →

06Beyond

Beyond the work.

Walaa Elagami on a colonnaded balcony overlooking palm gardens

Family

Mother. Wife. Sister. Friend.

Where unity was practised long before it was ever a strategy — and where the most important work goes unrecorded.

Travel

Not places collected.
Perspectives rearranged.

France Spain Italy
Switzerland Canada

Each one sent a different person home.

Still curious. Still learning.

07Credentials

Learning, in context.

Education

ESLSCA University — Digital Transformation MBA · EFMD-Accredited programme

International Programs

ESLSCA Business School Paris — Competitive Intelligence in Entrepreneurship · France · January 2025

Professional Development

EAE Barcelona — Data-Driven Decision-Making for Business · Spain · November 2025

Certifications

Academy for International Modern Studies (AIMS) — Certified Islamic Finance Expert (CIFE) · United Kingdom

09Let's stay connected

If something here made you curious, I'd be glad to hear from you.

Walaa Elagami

Curious by nature · Built by experience · Leading what comes next

Walaa Elagami seated in a blue outfit