Prof. Sharaf has been leading and sharing major roles in numerous initiatives and projects extended over all technical levels from execution and up to strategic levels, private and governmental. His vast experience is augmented by multicultural working environments and worldwide travel. Throughout the 40 years of his professional career experience, Prof. Sharaf has been nominated and awarded numerous local, regional, and international professional and honorary recognitions in. Prof. Sharaf has supervised about 70 master and doctoral dissertations in Egypt and other Arab countries covering several areas such as asset transportation planning, safety, highway engineering and management, pavement maintenance management, and transport asset management. He has also participated in more than 200 national and international conferences and workshops, as paper presenter, chairing sessions, or keynote speaker. His scientific wealth includes more than 160 papers published in local and international scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has been selected in number of leading governmental roles as Minister of Transport in 2005, and Prime Minister in 2011. Dr. Sharaf Established "Sharaf Foundation for Sustainable Development" (SHF) in Egypt as a non-profit non-governmental organization since 2015. His work within SHF wrapped about 100 lectures for public awareness of Sustainability in Egypt and around the world. In addition, to extend deep cooperation with Chinese NGOs such as China Network for International exchange and Ninxia association for international friendship, and several other Chinese NGOs. Currently Prof. Sharaf is focusing on escalating international cooperation initiatives. For instance; his attentive involvement and dedication for the "Belt & Road" initiative through his role as an active board member of the strategic committee for the "Silk Road Think Tank Network", and his attention for South-to-South cooperation through his activities as a board member of the Egyptian Council for African affairs.