Ghada Fathi Waly

Ghada Fathi Waly (; born 1966 ) is an Egyptian politician, formerly serving as Egypt's Minister of Social Solidarity and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) between 2020 and 2025, following her appointment by Secretary-General António Guterres.

Education Ghada Waly holds an MA and a BA from Colorado State University (US) in Humanities; she also holds a diploma in international development and a diploma in Project Management and is certified in Micro Finance from University of Colorado Boulder. She is fluent in Arabic, English and French and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Public profile She was voted the most influential woman in Egypt in 2016, according to Baseera Public Opinion Research Center and was chosen by Forbes Middle East as one of the ten most powerful Arab women in government for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Other activities Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Ex-Officio Member of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (since 2020) International Gender Champions (IGC), Member (since 2020)