Michelle Medhat

Michelle Medhat has had an exciting career that spans over 24 years in technology, science, education and marketing. Currently, Michelle is Director of Operations and Strategic Development at NEF: The Innovation Institute, an educational charity and professional institute that she co-founded with her husband Professor Sa'ad Sam Medhat in 2004. The Institute has donated millions of pounds to the science, engineering and technology education sector, and has helped to improve the lives of over 500,000 people. 

In her career, she has headed up an e-learning company, an events and media management company and a management consultancy. She has even created (from scratch) an educational institutional overseas (in Dubai) with her husband. Over the years, Michelle has worked with clients from BBC, Channel 4, EDF Energy, GSK, Walkers, Whitbread, and the NHS. Michelle has always tried to stay ahead of her time. A case in point being, back in 1995 she orchestrated the first international conference in the UK on multimedia communications (MediaComm) when the Internet was at its infancy. Backed by leading media and press organisations (BBC, ITN, The Independent, Times Higher) and technology companies (IBM, BT, Philips), the event introduced the public to a then an unknown technology called 'entertainment on demand'. 

In her spare time, Michelle enjoys writing, reading, painting and singing. During her career, she has written extensively for publications, journals and newspapers, and has numerous short stories published in various anthologies. She has a love of spy, political intrigue, science fiction and gritty crime and wanted to bring some of these genres together in her writing. Now Connected: The Call and Connected: The Shift are testament to that desire. Literally blending gritty spy thriller with political intrigue and a smattering of science fiction to deliver books that are original and heart-pounding.