Mohamed Hamza

Mohamed Hamed Hamza, Dr. sc. techn., Dr. Phil., was born in Egypt on October 17, 1935.

He attended the English School Cairo, an institution run by the British colonial authority for both Egyptian and British students, and was known to have been there as late as 1953. The school was taken over by the Egyptian government after the Suez Crisis.

Hamza moved to the United States and studied at MIT, graduating in 1958. His BS thesis was entitled On the stability of linear differential equations with periodic coefficients.

Hamza then studied at ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) where his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Nonlinear, signal adaptive and adaptive posicast control systems, was completed in 1963.

At ETH Zurich, Hamza was friendly with Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum.

Hamza completed his schooling in 1966 at the University of Zurich. There, he wrote a second dissertation, On inventory and control.

Moving to Canada, Hamza took up a faculty post at he University of Alberta, Calgary, now the University of Calgary.

Hamza began organising conferences and publishing journals in Switzerland, presumably while at ETH Zurich, and kept at it when relocated to Canada.

His main interest is IASTED: the International Association for Technology and Education for Development. which he cofounded in 1977. Publication records show that Hamza's publishing house, ACTA Press, was established in Anaheim, California by this time as well. The company is currently headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Hamza is also active as the Treasurer and Secretary of ISLAT, the International Society for Law and Technology.

Hamza was married to Christa Madeleine Hamza, whom he divorced in the late 1990s. The divorce, and the subsequent fight over communal monies, dragged on for a decade and has become case law. A full examination may be found in Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text, and Materials, N. Rafferty, General Editor.

Hamza has three children, one son and two daughters, and at least one brother, Hamed.

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