Hesham Youssef is Senior Transmission Engineer and CLS expert at Telecom Egypt, bringing over 14 years of experience in optical communications and submarine cable operations. He holds a master's degree in electrical, electronics, and communications engineering from Alexandria University, where he has published several papers on innovative optical amplifiers. He is also a lead researcher at Sustainable Subsea Networks, a research initiative of the SubOptic Foundation, funded by the Internet Society Foundation, that is investigating the sustainability of the global subsea telecommunications network.