Naglaa al-Ahwani

Naglaa El-Ahwany (; born March 1951) is an Egyptian economist, professor and politician. She served as Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt between 2014 and 2015 and has been professor of economcis at the Cairo University since 1998. from 2020 until the board was reconstituted in 2025 she was member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt.

Early life and education El-Ahwany was born in March 1951. She obtained a master’s degree in economics from Cairo University in February 1979, completing her studies with a dissertation on the Kuwaiti model of oil extraction, and subsequently earned a PhD in economics in July 1984 from the same university with a thesis entitled Egyptian Labour Migration to the Oil States and its Relation to the Structural Changes in the Egyptian Economy.

Research career She began working as a professor assistant in 1973 after graduating from the Department of Economics at Cairo University, and has been a professor of economics since 1998. Between 2002 and 2006, El-Ahwany was Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science of Cairo University, and also worked for the Advisory Board of the Migration and Development Research Center at Coventry University in the UK and the Board of Directors of the Cabinet ERADA Initiative and the Arab Society for Economic Research.

In January 2020, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi appointed her member of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt. In 2021 she named member of the Board of Directors of Allianz Insurance in Egypt.

Political career She has been Technical Director of the Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab's Office. On 18 May 2011, El-Ahwany was appointed economic advisor of the Cabinet of Egypt amid economic crisis warnings and high levels of poverty.

In December 2014, El-Ahwany signed a protocol with France worth more than seven million euros to finance the new navigation systems at Taba International Airport. In March 2015 she signed with the Japanese ambassador a protocol to finance the construction of Dairut Dam. In April 2015, she announced government's measures to reform the energy sector and reduce fuel subsidies.

She was succeeded by Sahar Nasr on 19 September 2015.