Sherif Kamel is a professor of management at the Heikal Department of Management and the dean of the School of Business at The American University in Cairo (AUC). Previously, he served as the university vice president for information management. Before joining the university, he was the director of the Regional Information Technology Institute and managed the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center. 

Kamel holds the position of chair of the board of directors of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB International and vice chair of the Global Alliance in Management Education (CEMS). He serves on the board of directors of the Central Bank of Egypt, the Global Business Schools Network, Raya Holding for Financial Investments, and Education for Employment Egypt. He is a member of the Egypt-U.S. Business Council, the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics International Advisory Board. He is a founding member of the Internet Society of Egypt.

He served as the 18th president of the board of governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Furthermore, he co-chaired the board of stewards of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative. He served on the international board of the Association of MBAs, the Business Graduate Association, and the boards of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund and the Commercial International Bank. He has authored over 300 academic and business articles and chapters published in IS and management journals and books and edited three books on information technology. He also authored the book titled "Leading Change in Challenging Times: Lessons of Disruption and Innovation from Egypt – Thoughts, Observations, and Reflections" and the NileView article series.

Kamel is an Eisenhower Fellow and a Center for Global Enterprise Fellow. He holds a PhD in information systems from the London School of Economics, an MBA, an M.A. in Islamic Art and Architecture, and a B.A. in Business Administration from The American University in Cairo.