The HR Blue Ribbon Forum (BR) is a Human Resources committee that was founded in 1994 un- der the umbrella of the Center for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE), now called the School of Continuing Education, at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
The committee used to meet once a month except July and August. In these meetings, the com- mittee members composed of Human Resources Managers and Training Managers from multi- national organizations in Egypt, used to brainstorm on all the ongoing HR issues and challenges as well as exchange experience and network.
In 2008, CACE decided not to keep the BR committee under its umbrella. However, The Chairman and the committee members requested from EDGE’s founder to keep the committee under its su- premacy since it was her who came up with the idea behind the forum in early 1994.
Now, the committee meets quarterly and the meetings are held at one of the members’ premises such as:
Edge’s ultimate objective is to support the BR committee because of its real value to its members, aiding them to keep an outstanding level of networking and experience exchange.
