Over twenty years of professional experience in advisory, consultancy and project management for social & economic infrastructure projects across a number of sectors including water and wastewater schemes, power, roads, urban development and real estate development in Nigeria, Ghana, DRC, Jordan and United Arab Emirates.Mr. El-Qasem has an impressive experience in transaction advisory and project process management including project identification, design, multi-disciplinary appraisal, structuring, tendering, and project management. He also has great knowledge and expertise in a number of fields and topics including, without limitations: developing program business cases, developing project business cases, analysis and decision making, UK Green Book guidelines on Appraisal Evaluation, UK guidelines in managing public money, Project Management Institute (PMI’s) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guidelines, “Federation Internationale Des Ingeniuers – Conseils” (FIDIC) standards and guidelines including FIDIC Red Book, MDB Harmonized Red Book & FIDIC White Book, Communication Skills During Crisis, Infrastructure PPP & Fiscal Management, Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty, Conflict of Interest Risk Management for Your Project, IBRD Flexible Loans, Financial Risk Management Products, Railway Financing, Resilience Monitoring & Evaliuation (ReM&E), and more.On top of his skills and experience in Public Private Partnership (PPP) including PPP Framework governance, identification of projects, preparation of techno-economic appraisal feasibility reports, CBA/VfM analysis, market souding management, structuring, PPP procurement methodlogies assessment & implementation, setting up of SPVs, and more; Mr. El-Qasem has been accorded as a Certified PPP Professional under the Certified Public Private Partnership Professional (CP3P) Program administered by World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF).