NOHA KHATER

Noha Khater, Almouneer Co-Founder, is also a Cairo University Professor of Ophthalmology and the only female retinal surgeon in Egypt.

She acquired several degrees from the United Kingdom (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists of London), Retinal Fellowship from the University of Texas, Houston in the United States and a PhD from Cairo University in Egypt.

After building her expertise and passion in Ophthalmology and diabetes care over a span of 13 years in her private and university practice, she co-founded ALMOUNEER in 2016 with her co-founder, Rania Kadry. Almouneer started off as a network of specialized and fully digital diabetic eye care centers. Noha’s innovative healthcare concept combines technology and specialized healthcare to serve more than 45 million diabetic patients in the region, one third of whom could lose their sight because of diabetes effects on the eye.

Henceforth, Almouneer has positioned itself as the sole provider of digital diabetic eye care in MENA and Africa treating over 90 thousand patients from all over the region in five years.

In 2022, Noha pivoted again, as a firm believer that health 3.0 is about prevention of diseases, she launched a new health tech platform (DRU) connecting overweight, prediabetic and diabetic patients to their healthcare providers in all medical disciplines related to Diabetes. The patient app will allow patients to own their entire journey to well-being, monitoring and tracking their health and aiming to prevent diabetes all together or reduce its long term morbidity.

Due to the immense social impact of her business, she was chosen as a finalist for Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards in 2018 and also as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2017.

Noha currently serves as a mentor and jury President at the CWIA community. Noha is a passionate and loyal member of the community as she is a great advocate of women empowerment and advancement. Locally, as an acknowledgement of her impact as a female leader, she was selected as one of top 50 most influential women in Egypt in 2020.

Noha is also an Alumni of INSEAD’s social entrepreneurship program ( ISEP) and a Foundry Fellow at the Legatum center at MIT.

Acknowledging her effort and offering guidance on strategy to scale, ALMOUNEER business model was selected by INSEAD in their Master Strategist Day (MSD) 2019. INSEAD’s MBAs and Professors helped Noha understand and plan the growth of her social enterprise. Almouneer was reselected as a case study by INSEAD in 2022 and back again in 2023 for their Global Executive MBA program. The strategy set by INSEAD MBAs is helping Almouneer scale in the MENA region and Africa.

She is also the chairman and co- founder of Control, an NGO established 2017, which works towards education and providing free healthcare for diabetics in Egypt. She also loves working on supporting similar enterprises and entrepreneurs to help them deliver impact in her society.