Mandy Taha - Ambassador for Egypt and North Africa

Dr. Mandy A. Taha is an Open Access Consultant for Arab States and has collaborated with organizations like FORCE11, UNESCO, and FAO. A former board member and secretary of FORCE11 (2017-2024), she also served on its program and code of conduct committees. From 2001, Dr. Taha worked at the Library of Alexandria, contributing to various projects as a senior research librarian and leading the IFLA-CASL project on standards for Arab libraries. Her responsibilities included electronic resources training, collection development, bibliography compilation, subject guide creation, reference assistance, and teaching information literacy, including a Web2.0 literacy course. In 2009, she also established the blog “Alexlibrarians 2.0”.
Dr. Taha was awarded from many institutions such as EPT OA Award, 2013 and the Special Libraries Association membership (SLA) - Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (PAM) Division, 2008.
Mandy was the eIFL open access country coordinator in Egypt (2008-2011), edited the DRIVER Wiki page on Open Access in Egypt, and organized Open Access Week activities from 2010 to 2020. Dr. Taha, who holds a PhD in Engineering, has popularized OA through seminars and led OA week in Egypt since 2009.
Mandy has authored and co-authored papers on Open access and extended her OA work by collaborating in webinars for the AIMS Metadata community in educating and exchanging knowledge.