Mahmoud Mohieldin, FREcon

About

Dr. Mohieldin, is the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. He is a visiting senior research scholar at Columbia Business School, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, and a senior nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He served as an Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund from 2020 to 2024. He was the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt for COP27. He was the first Minister of Investment of Egypt from , and most recently, served as the World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, United Nations Relations and Partnerships. His roles at the World Bank included Managing Director, responsible for Human Development, Sustainable Development, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, and the World Bank Institute; World Bank President's Special Envoy on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), (later, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), and Financing for Development; and Corporate Secretary and Executive Secretary to the Development Committee of the World Bank Group's Board of Governors. Mr. Mohieldin also served on several Boards of Directors in the Central Bank of Egypt and the corporate sector. He was a member of the Commission on Growth and Development and selected a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2005. His professional experience extends into the academic arena as a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University and as a Visiting Professor at several renowned Universities in Egypt, Korea, the UAE, the UK and the USA. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of Durham University Business School. He also holds leading positions in national, regional and international research centers and associations. Mr. Mohieldin holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK; a Master’s in Economics and Social Policy Analysis from the University of York, UK; a Diploma of Development Economics from the University of Warwick; and a B.Sc. in Economics from Cairo University. He also participated in executive programs at Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, the MIT and Georgetown University. In 2018, the American University in Cairo conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of Humane Letters “in recognition of renowned attainments and achievements”. VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE ARE PERSONAL.