Tahani Abdalla Attia

Tahani Abdalla Attia Gasmalla is the Minister of Science and Communication of Sudan and an associate professor in the faculty of engineering at the University of Khartoum.

Education Gasmalla obtained her bachelor degree from the University of Khartoum in 1993, in 1999she obtained Master degree in the same school and obtained her PhD in 2006.

Career and memberships After becoming a member of IEE London in 2008, she became the acting HOD of Electrical and Electronics engineering at the International University of Africa in 2009. In 2010, she became a specialist engineer at the Sudanese Engineering Council and in 2012 she became a Member of the Executive Office of the Engineering Society. Between 2012 and 13, she was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Science and Communications, she was a Minister of Science and Communications for two years starting from 2013. In 2015, she was appointed as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.