COSMOPROF 2026

Riham Abouelmagd

Trade Analyst of ITA – Italian Trade Agency

Graduated in Languages and Culture of The Modern World at the “La Sapienza University” in Rome, she is working for the Italian Trade Commission in Egypt (Trade promotion Section of the Italian Embassy) since 2014.

She finalized, last May, her second advanced University degree, this time in International Relation and Political Sciences at "Niccolò' Cusano" University in Rome with the degree of 107/110.

She is the head of the Consumer Goods Department of the Italian Trade Commission in Egypt, which means that she is in charge of all the promotional activities around the Consumer Goods Sectors.

Living abroad, and her extensive travelling experiences, have offered her opportunities to adapt to new environments. She has learned how important it is to be flexible and make use of her own resources.

Her main strengths are interpersonal skills and a true willingness and passion of working in team since she is able to set his point of view, respecting the hierarchies, and in the same time make an asset of other people insights. She has also a good sense of intuition about people qualities and their potential abilities to contribute in a team.

She was born in Italy from an Egyptian family, so she acquired two cultures, the Egyptian and the Italian one, which have played a determining role in her upbringing and in her ability to fully understand them.

Living in a multicultural environment has given her the distinctive feature of interculturalism which is not just the ability to speak fluently Arabic and Italian but also the full awareness of the two cultures peculiarity.