Nabil Fahmy is Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, a position he has held since July 2026. A career diplomat with over three decades of experience, he served as Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014, Ambassador to the United States from 1999 to 2008, and Ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 1999. Throughout his diplomatic career, he has focused on international security, disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation, conflict resolution and Arab-Israeli diplomacy. He previously chaired the United Nations Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and served as Vice-Chairman of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. In 2009, he founded the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, where he served as Dean and is currently Dean Emeritus. He is also the author of Egypt’s Diplomacy in War, Peace, and Transition (2020).