Dr. Arafat held the post of Minister of Transportation, Arab Republic of Egypt from February 2017 to March 2019, set-up all strategic plans for the restructuring of railways, metro-lines subways and LRT, maritime, dry ports, river transportation and highways. He is currently the deputy chairman of Board of Trustees of Future University in Egypt. He published more than 35 papers in international journals and international conferences, and supervised more than 30 M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Arafat holds a B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering in Ain Shams University in Cairo. He also conducted a Ph.D. Thesis at the Institute Fuer Grund-Bau und Boeden Mechanic at Braunschweig, Germany.