Egyptian Ambassador to the United States, Nabil Fahmy, on Current Challenges in the Middle East
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Nabil Fahmy is the current Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States, a position he has held since October 1999. He is a career diplomat who has played an active role in numerous efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. He has served as Egypt's Ambassador to Japan, and has been a member of numerous Egyptian missions to the United Nations. Ambassador Fahmy has written extensively on Middle East politics, peacemaking and regional security and disarmament.
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. followed by a Q&A session and a light lunch
Location: Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Seminar Room, 7th Floor, 14 Marietta Street, NW
Biography of Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the U.S.
Ambassador Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States since October 1999, is a career diplomat who has played an active role in the numerous efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, as well as in international and regional disarmament affairs.
Ambassador Fahmy has also served as Egypt’s Ambassador to Japan and was the Political Advisor to the Foreign Minister. Over the years, he has been a member of the Egyptian Missions to the United Nations (Disarmament and Political Affairs) in Geneva and New York and has held numerous posts in the Egyptian Government.
Ambassador Fahmy headed the Egyptian delegation to the Middle East Peace Process Steering Committee in 1993 and the Egyptian delegation to the Multilateral Working Group on Regional Security and Arms Control emanating from the Madrid Peace Conference from December 1991. He was elected Vice Chairman of the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security Affairs of the 44th Session of the UN General Assembly in 1986. And from 1999 until 2003, he was a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board of Disarmament Matters and served as its chairman in 2001.
Ambassador Fahmy has written extensively on Middle East politics, peacemaking and regional security and disarmament. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics/Mathematics and his Master of Arts in Management, both from the American University in Cairo.
More on Ambassador Nabil Fahmy can be found on the Egyptian Embassy web site.
