Walaa Elagami
Curious by nature.
Built by experience.
Leading what comes next.
Financial Markets & Banking · Digital Transformation · AI · Building Althèque
02Roots
“Cairo is where my story begins — a place of contrasts, movement, ambition and constant change, and the environment that shaped my curiosity about people, business and how things can work better.”
EGYPT
Cairo · Foundation
ESLSCA University
Digital Transformation · MBA
“From understanding the world around me — to understanding how technology can transform it.”
03Experience
“From Cairo, the questions took me further.”
01 · Financial Markets
Learning to read risk.
An early chapter in decision-making under pressure, where incomplete information meets constantly moving numbers.
02 · Banking
Understanding how institutions work.
Years inside banking shaped my understanding of governance, trust, risk and what it takes to make change last. It became a way of thinking I still carry every day.
03 · France
A different perspective opened up.
Studying beyond Egypt introduced me to new environments, people and ways of thinking.
04 · Spain
Learning through another lens.
Barcelona challenged me to let data lead a decision, not simply support one.
“The places changed. The questions kept growing.”
04Perspective
Different worlds. One perspective.
Somewhere between them, I found my direction.
Banking
Trust, risk and people in motion.
Transformation
Better ways to make change work.
Technology & AI
Tools for clearer, faster thinking.
Building
Learning shaped into something useful.
05Build
At some point, curiosity becomes action.
For years I worked on transformation from the inside — understanding the problem, making the case and helping change happen. Then I wanted to build it, not just describe it.
That became Althèque Technologies — an innovation company in Cairo working across technology, talent and transformation.
altus — high, elevated.
-thèque — a place of gathering and knowledge.
A gathering place for elevation: of ideas, of talent, of technology.
Because technology should extend what people can do, not replace it.
Co-founder & CEO
Explore Althèque →06Beyond
Beyond the work.
Family
Mother. Wife. Sister. Friend.
Where unity was practised long before it was ever a strategy — and where the most important work goes unrecorded.
Travel
Not places collected.
Perspectives rearranged.
France Spain Italy
Switzerland Canada
Each one sent a different person home.
Still curious. Still learning.
07Credentials
Learning, in context.
ESLSCA University — Digital Transformation MBA · EFMD-Accredited programme
ESLSCA Business School Paris — Competitive Intelligence in Entrepreneurship · France · January 2025
EAE Barcelona — Data-Driven Decision-Making for Business · Spain · November 2025
Academy for International Modern Studies (AIMS) — Certified Islamic Finance Expert (CIFE) · United Kingdom
08Insights
