Sherif Ismail Bakr, studied in the English school in Heliopolis Cairo, graduated from the faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, majoring in Economics and minoring in Computer Science – then has taken over the family business since 1997.
Bakr has worked since he was young in the summer vacation in the publishing house, then he worked full-time since he graduated. He worked in all fields of publishing from warehouse to accounting, and from sales and marketing, to editorial and foreign rights.
Sherif Bakr was The General Secretary of the Egyptian Publishing Association and head of the Development and e-publishing committee for four years. And for Four years member at the Book and Publishing committee at the higher supreme council for culture, for seven years a member of the higher culture committee of the Cairo International Book Fair, Bakr is also elected member of the Freedom to Publish committee in the International Publishing Association, and part of the Egyptian Export Council for Printing, Packaging, Paper, Literary and Artistic Works. For Six years a member of the Freedom to Publish committee in the IPA.
Having spotted the chance of bridging the Arab civilization and the Arab World (over 400 million inhabitants) with the rest of the world, his aim is to build those bridges based on books and culture.
Sherif Bakr has been invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2008 as part of the invitation program for international publishers and in 2009 as part of Fellowship program with 15 other fellows from another 14 countries. He has been invited as well to many other book fairs and publishing events to represent Egypt and the Arab World. For example: Turin International Book Fair (IBF) from 2010 to 2016, Prague International book fair from 2011 (as a speaker) to 2016. ITEF Professional Meetings Fellowship Programme of Turky 2012. MICA|Mercado de Industrias Culturales Argentinas from 2013 to 2016, Amsterdam fellowship 2013 and Sharjah International Book Fair from 2013 as a speaker to 2016. And over 20 fellowships around the world.
In 2020 Sherif coordinated with EUNIC the project Arab Voices which aims at promoting Arab/Egyptian authors abroad by building a catalouge to help them get translated.
He was invited to participate in the IVLP (International Visitors Leadership Program) in USA in 2019.
He was selected as the first training program of its kind for remote deployment via virtual reality and Meta Verse.
2022: Speaker in the panel at the first International Congress of Arabic Publishing and Creative Industries in Abu Dhabi.