In 1925, Helmy Bahgat Badawi obtained his Law License degree from the Egyptian University in Cairo, Egypt, and in the following year he joined the Paris-Sorbonne University where he commenced his research work in the field of Commercial law.

In the early part of the 1940s Dr. Badawi became involved in the banking arena where he held managerial positions at the Credit Foncier Franco-Egyptien.

From the mid-1940s until the time he was appointed Chief of the Suez Canal Authority, Dr. Badawi held several key Egyptian government positions, including: Chief Counselor and Negotiator at numerous International conferences in San Francisco, New York, Paris and Geneva, Minister of Commerce and Industry[3] in the Mohamed Naguib Government from 1952 to 1954, and head of the Egyptian delegation to the UN general assembly in 1953[4] and 1956.

[5][6] In 1955 he also served as an international arbitrator on the tanker dispute between Saudi Arabia and the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco).

[7][8][9] Dr. Badawi was the chief architect of Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal Company.