Bahjat El-Darwiche is a Principal with Booz & Company and a leadership member of the Communications & Technology Practice in the Middle East. Mr. El-Darwiche has fourteen years of strategy and business experience in the telecommunications sector acquired through various engagements in the Middle East, Europe, North America and Asia. Mr. El-Darwiche advises governments, regulatory authorities and telecom operators and has led engagements in the areas of telecom sector liberalization and growth strategy development, policy making and regulatory management, business development and strategic investments, corporate and business planning, and privatization and restructuring. Bahjat holds a state engineering diploma from the Ecole Polytechnique in France and a MS degree in Telecommunications from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.