Maya Morsy | |
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| Minister of Social Solidarity | |
| Assumed office 3 July 2024 | |
| Minister | Minister of Social Solidarity |
| Preceded by | Nivine El-Qabbage |
| President of Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) | |
| In office 1 February 2016 – 3 July 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Mervat Tallawy |
| UNDP Gender Regional Advisor | |
| In office 1 March 2013 – 1 February 2016 | |
| Head of the Egypt Country Office United Nations Fund for Women | |
| In office 2011–2013 | |
| Country Coordinator/Director of UNIFEM and liaison for the League of Arab States | |
| In office 1999–2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maya Mohamed Abdel-Moneim Morsy 13 December 1973 |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | • Institute of Arab Research and Studies (PhD) • City University of Seattle (MA) • City University of Seattle (MBA) • The American University in Cairo (BA) |
Maya Morsy (Arabic: مايا مرسي) is an Egyptian political scientist, specialist in public policy, and advocate for woman's and human rights. She is an elected president of Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) on 1 February 2016. She is the third, and youngest, President of the NCW since it was established in 2000, by a ministerial decree.[1][2][3] Morsy previously served as regional gender team leader for the Regional bureau of United Nations Development Programme in New York City and Regional Center in Amman before she served as the Country Manager for the United Nations Development Fund for Women.[1][4] She has been described as "one of the best public policy experts on social gender in Egypt, and perhaps even in all of the Arab world".[5]
The NCW was created in 2000 by Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, and led by Suzanne Mubarak. Its board was restructured after the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and reorganized in 2012.[1]
In 2022, Morsy was elected by the UN member states to the United nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) from 2023 to 2026.[6]
- ^ a b c "UNDP regional expert Maya Morsy elected head of Egypt’s National Council for Women", Al-Ahram, 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Head of Egypt's NCWR calls on Parliament to ratifies 21 as legal age of girls’ marriage", Egypt Independent, 26 September 2017.
- ^ "National Council for Women presents 2030 Egyptian Women Empowerment Strategy in UNOG", Daily News (Egypt), 20 June 2017.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/117100/In-pics-Egypt-wins-membership-of-Committee-on-the-Elimination