Ghada Waly
Ghada Waly has been executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and director general of the United Nations Office at Vienna since 2020. She holds the rank of UN under-secretary general and is the first African Arab woman to lead UNOV and UNODC. She served as Egypt’s minister of social solidarity from 2014 to 2020 and, previously, managing director of the Social Fund for Development. At the United Nations Development Programme, she was responsible for coordinating the Millennium Development Goals reports and launched the National Strategy for microfinance.
