Executive Pastry Chef

He is an Executive Pastry Chef, menu designer, consultant trainer, and chocolatier with extensive experience in plated desserts, confectionery, and dessert development. Throughout his career, he has focused on combining traditional techniques with modern creativity to create refined and innovative desserts. His expertise includes chocolate, bonbons, pralines, ganaches, caramels, pastries, and artistic chocolate work, with strong attention to flavor balance, texture, and presentation. He is passionate about developing new concepts. As a competition jury member, he is committed to evaluating competitors with professionalism, fairness, and a deep appreciation for technical skills, creativity, originality, and presentation.

Chef Maged has more than 30 years of experience working as Executive Pastry Chef in several 5-star hotel chains in different countries, including Kuwait, Turkey, Germany, France and the United Arab Emirates. He had a great opportunity to learn from foreign chefs to build a broad spectrum of his pastry skills and enhance his talents.

He was the Culinary Pastry Ambassador of the Egyptian National Team at the Culinary Olympics 2000, scoring the first-ever Olympic medal in pastry for Egypt. Chef Maged has always been dedicated to continuous education and training in order to stay updated with the culinary developments and trends. He has studied in different schools in Europe, such as “Le Notre” in France and “Ewald Notre” in Germany and he is passionate about sharing his expertise and has trained numerous pastry chefs throughout his career in several 5-star hotel establishments.

Meet the Culinary Jury Members of the ECA Live Cooking Competitions at HACE 2026