Alaa Mazloum is a Graduate Fellow with MEI’s Cyber Program. She previously worked as a Senior Public Policy Analyst at a consultancy firm in Egypt, where she researched policy issues related to the digital transformation in Egypt. She was also part of a private sector working group that wrote legal commentary on the Egyptian Data Protection Law, which was eventually presented before the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology as part of the drafting process for the law. She has worked closely on issues of policy and strategy with companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Vodafone and MasterCard.