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The change agent: Ibrahim Abouleish – his life and vision
Ibrahim Abouleish was born in 1937 in Cairo, Egypt, where he grew up. Aged 19, he moved to Graz, Austria to study technical chemistry and pharmacology at the Graz University of Technology. In Austria he married Gudrun Erdinger and founded his family with two children, Helmy and Mona. After university, Ibrahim worked in leading research positions with pharmaceutical companies in Austria. During this time he regularly visited his family in Egypt, but initially did not notice the profound social changes that were happening back home. That was until a trip he made together with his family in 1975. This trip opened his eyes to the changes Egypt had undergone over the previous 20 years under the presidency of Nassar. He recalls in his own words:
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Mader, C., Steiner, G., Zimmermann, F.M., Spitzeck, H. (2011). SEKEM – Humanistic Management in the Egyptian Desert. In: von Kimakowitz, E., Pirson, M., Spitzeck, H., Dierksmeier, C., Amann, W. (eds) Humanistic Management in Practice. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306585_14
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