Nabil Fahmy

H.E. Nabil Fahmy served as Egypt's foreign minister from 2013 to 2014. H.E. Fahmy has also had a distinguished diplomatic career from 1976 to 2011, where he served as ambassador to the United States from 1999 to 2008 and Japan from 1997 to 1999, as well as in numerous government and international positions. Much of his work has focused on international and regional security, disarmament and non-proliferation, conflict resolution, and Arab-Israeli diplomacy. 

H.E. Fahmy was also the chairman of the United Nations Advisory Board on disarmament matters, and the vice-chairman of the United Nations General Assembly's first committee dealing with disarmament and international security. H.E. Fahmy was a member of the Egyptian delegation to the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, the review conferences of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; the Committee on Principles in the United Nations Conference on Promoting International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and many other multilateral events, and Supreme Advisory Council of the Beijing Forum. H.E. Fahmy was bestowed with the Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by Japanese Emperor Naruhito.

H.E. Fahmy founded the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo in 2009 and served as its founding dean from 2009 to 2022. Moreover, H.E. Fahmy is the author of the books: "Egypt's Diplomacy in War, Peace, and Transition" (in English, 2020) and "From the Heart of Events" (in Arabic, 2022).