Yousry is currently a Professor (Applied Forest Genetics and Biotechnology), Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in population and quantitative genetics (1980: University of British Columbia, Canada), a M.Sc. in quantitative genetics (1977: University of Tanta, Egypt) and a B.Sc. in Genetics (1970: University of Alexandria, Egypt). Prior to his current post, Yousry worked in the industry as Director, Genetics and Product Development, CellFor Inc., and as Director, Applied Forest Research, Pacific Forest Products Ltd, both based in Victoria, British Columbia. Yousry has received numerous research grants in the area of Forest Genetics and Genomics and Tree Improvement and has authored and co-authored more than 400 refereed publications, book chapters and invited papers. Yousry served as a member of the IUFRO Extended Board, Division 2 (Physiology and Genetics) Coordinator and as an Associate Editor to the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Tree Physiology, and Forest genetics. Yousry is a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing Forestry University and Honorary Professor at Beijing Forestry University (China) and the recipient of the IUFRO Scientific Achievement Award (2010), Professor Honoris Causa at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic (2011), and the Canadian Institute of Forestry Scientific Achievement Award (2017).