Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued a decision Monday to form the board of trustees of the Egyptian e-Learning University (EELU).

The board of trustees includes former education and scientific research minister Wael el Degwy, former education minister Moheb el Rafei, former petroleum minister Osama Kamal and president of Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) Abu Bakr el Gendy and Dean of Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences Hala el Saeid along with several others. 

The EELU is an Egyptian private non-profit University, and it is the first Egyptian university to offer E-Learning services. EELU was established with the Decree, No. 233, of the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt on 16 August 2008 to provide distance education through 24-hour online learning.