Ahmed Okasha MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FACP

Ahmed Okasha is a Professor and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Training and Research in Mental Health. He is the founder and honorary Chairman of the Okasha Institute of Psychiatry at Ain Shams University, Cairo. He was also the Chairperson of the Neuropsychiatric Department at Ain Shams University from 1988 to 1994.

Okasha is President of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association, Honorary President of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists, was President of the World Psychiatric Association (2002 – 2005), President of the Egyptian Society of Biological Psychiatry, President of the WFSBP, Chairman of WPA Review Committee (2008 – 2011), Chairman of WPA Ethics' Committee (1993 – 2002).

Dr. Ahmed Okasha holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Ain Shams University in 1957. He traveled to England in 1959 and returned to Egypt. He was the first to introduce the Department of Psychiatry in medical schools in Egypt in 1964. 1975.