Maya Morsy

Maya Morsy is an Egyptian political scientist and specialist in public policy. She is an elected President of Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) on 1 February 2016 to Date as the third and the youngest President of the NCW since it was established in 2000. The National Women Machinery of Egypt an independent body by law and constitution reporting to the President of Egypt, since February 2016. Before she was elected to lead the NCW, Morsy served as regional gender team leader for the Regional bureau of United Nations Development Programme in New York and Regional Center in Amman before she served as the Country Manager for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. 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".