Mahmoud Mohieldin

United Nations Special Envoy for Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

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Mahmoud Mohieldin is an economist with over 30 years of experience in international finance and development. He serves as the United Nations Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and leads a group of prominent experts appointed by the United Nations Secretary General to promote solutions for resolving the debt crisis. Dr. Mohieldin is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the Cairo University, and a Visiting Professor at several renowned Universities in Egypt, Korea, the UAE, the UK, and the USA, he is also a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings. The World Academy of Arts and Science (WAAS) elected Dr. Mohieldin as a Fellow in 2024. He is also currently the Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Business of Economic Growth. Dr. Mohieldin is a Global Ambassador to the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience campaigns for the High-Level Climate Champions and was the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP27.