Experts
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Ambassador Ahmed Abdel-Latif, the Director-General of the Cairo International Centre for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding (CCCPA) since October 2020. He is also the Executive Director of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development and the first Chair of the African Union’s Network of Think Tanks for Peace (NeTT4Peace) launched in February 2023. A career diplomat since 1997, he has a long-standing experience in multilateral affairs and was posted to Egypt’s mission to the UN and WTO (2000-2004). Prior to joining CCCPA, he was the Permanent Observer of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to the UN. He joined the Agency in 2015 serving as Chief of Office of the Director General.
Ambassador Abdel-Latif holds an LLM from LSE, a BA in political science from the American University in Cairo (AUC), and the diplôme of Sciences Po-Paris. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
