Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States of America
Mohamed Hamdy ElMolla is a career diplomat with nearly three decades of dedicated service in the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, with extensive expertise in international security, regional diplomacy international law, and multilateral affairs.
Since September 2024, Ambassador ElMolla has served as Assistant Minister and Chief of Cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates. Prior to this assignment, he served as Ambassador of Egypt to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Vienna and other international organizations from 2020 to 2024.
During his tenure in Vienna, Ambassador ElMolla was elected Vice President of the Ad Hoc Committee tasked with elaborating a United Nations convention on cybercrime and served as President of the Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. He also served as Governor on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and co-chaired, together with Belgium, the IAEA Programme and Budget Committee in 2023. Additionally, he chaired negotiations on UNIDO’s Climate Change Strategy and served as Chair of both the Arab Group and the African Group in Vienna.
Ambassador ElMolla has played a leading role in Egypt’s diplomacy on Nile water issues for over a decade. From 2017 to 2020, he served as Egypt’s lead diplomatic negotiator on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Earlier, he was a member of Egypt’s delegation to the International Panel of Experts on the GERD and participated in the tripartite process involving Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. He also served on Egypt’s National High Committee on the Nile River and was a member of Egypt’s delegation to the Nile Basin Initiative.
Earlier in his career, Ambassador ElMolla served as Counselor at Egypt’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, where he was Egypt’s alternate representative to the Conference on Disarmament and the Human Rights Council. He also served at the Embassy of Egypt in London, covering African affairs, Nile water issues, and the Middle East peace process, and at the Embassy of Egypt in Kampala, Uganda, where he worked on matters related to the Nile Basin and the Great Lakes region. During his time in Cairo, he has held several assignments within the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs covering a diverse array of issues.
Ambassador ElMolla holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from the American University in Cairo and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Ain Shams University. He has written and published on issues relating to constitutional and international law. He is a native Arabic speaker and fluent in both English and French.
Born in Cairo on July 8, 1972, Ambassador ElMolla is married with three daughters, and it is this sense of family, heritage, and continuity that informs both his personal character and his lifelong commitment to serving Egypt and advancing peace and cooperation among nations.