Tamer Taha is the Founder & CEO of Istebdaa' LLC., a Cairo-based Innovation Consulting and Management Company which also owns and manages Yomken.com, the Arab CrowdSolving Platform. He is also a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University in Maastricht on Innovation Economics. 

Istebdaa' provides services on impact evaluation, feasibility studies and innovation policy and management consulting for different national, and international organizations. Istebdaa' also owns and manages Yomken.com, a Cairo-based non-profit web-based platform that aims at linking innovative entrepreneurs with the market through crowdsourcing solutions and R&D services for societal and technical challenges faced by local NGOs, startups, factories and governmental entities.

Tamer has been working with the World Bank as a Research Analyst for three years on two programs: "Innovation and Knowledge-based Economy for Growth and Job Creation" and "Governance in Higher Education" for which he contributed to a number of regional reports. In addition, Tamer had a number of consulting experiences for international, public and private entities including the EIB and UNDP. His main fields of interest are innovation policy, knowledge-based economy, employment, and business analytics, notably in the Arab world. 

He holds a Master's degree from Paris-Sorbonne University in International Economics of Development (2010) and a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Computer Applications in Social Sciences from Cairo University (2009), where he participated in various developmental projects. He is currently pursuing his PhD remotely on “Innovation and Employment in the Arab world” at the United Nations University in Maastricht.

Tamer has experience in research using different qualitative and quantitative tools: econometric analysis, social network analysis, and impact evaluation.