Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, received a delegation from the French University of Poitiers, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Ayman Saleh, Vice President of Graduate Studies and Research, Prof. Dr. Ghada Farouk, Acting Vice President of Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Dr. Khaled Qadri, Dean of the Faculty of Business, Prof. Dr. Shahira Samir, Executive Director of the International Relations and Academic Cooperation Sector, Prof. Dr. Sherwat Al-Ahmadi, Director of Expatriates Department, Prof. Dr. Mostafa Refaat, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering for Education and Student Affairs and Director of the International Cooperation Department, Prof. Dr. Eman Abdel Salam, Academic Coordinator at the Faculty of Business, Dr. Sarah El-Bat, Deputy Academic Coordinator for the French Department at the Faculty of Business.‎

The French delegation included Dr. Monique Camilleri, Director of International Relations at the Institute of Corporate Governance, University of Poitiers, France, and Mr. Guillaume Morel, French Coordinator of the French Language Study Department at the Faculty of Commerce.

The meeting aims to enhance means of joint cooperation between the two universities, and discuss the development of the partnership program between the Faculty of Business at Ain Shams University and the Institute of Corporate Management at the University of Poitiers in France, IAE de Poitiers which is represented in the cooperation agreement signed between the two parties since 2000 and is automatically renewed every four years, and this agreement allows students at the end of the third year to obtain a Bachelor of Management Science from the University of Poitiers, in addition to obtaining at the end of the fourth year a Bachelor of Business from Ain Shams University.