H.E. Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit

H.E. Ahmed Aboul Gheit is an Egyptian politician and diplomat. He has been Secretary-General of the Arab League since July 2016. He was reappointed for a second term on 3 March 2021.

Aboul-Gheit served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt from 11 July 2004 to 6 March 2011.
Previously, between 1999 and 2004, he was Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

He was succeeded as Minister of Foreign Affairs by International Court of Justice judge Nabil Elaraby in March 2011, following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.
He was elected Secretary-General of the Arab League in March 2016, and his term commenced on 3 July 2016.

Aboul Gheit joined the diplomatic corps in 1965 after completing university, and rose through the ranks of the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, occupying diplomatic positions in Rome, Nicosia, Moscow and New York.
In 1999, he was appointed Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations, before being recalled to Cairo in 2004 to take the lead in diplomacy.