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Neveen Elhusseiny

Neveen Elhusseiny

Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates for Migration

Egypt

Neveen Elhusseiny serves as Egypt’s Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates for Migration, and leads Egypt’s diplomatic engagement and policy coordination on migration, asylum, and combating trafficking in persons. She began her career as a researcher at the Arab Organization for Human Rights and then as a social policy analyst at SPAAC Consultancy. She joined the diplomatic service in 1998. She has served at the Embassy of Egypt in India, as Head of the Israel Unit, as officer in charge of Egypt–United States bilateral relations, as Deputy Assistant Minister for Migration, Refugees and Combating Trafficking in Persons, and as Ambassador of Egypt to the Republic of Angola (2023-2026). Elhusseiny holds three master’s degrees: in gender and development from Cairo University, in human rights law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and in international security from the University of Geneva.

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