Egyptian khaled el-enany designated to take the head of UNESCO

The UNESCO Executive Council appointed Egyptian Khaled El-Enany on Monday, October 6 to become its general manager over the next four years, said his president Vera Vera the Khoury Lacoeuilhe. He faced the Congolese firm Edouard Matoko.

This former Minister of Antiquities and Tourism (2016-2022), 54, Egyptologist by training, gathered 55 votes of 57 during this vote, which must now be formally ratified on November 6 during the meeting of the United Nations General Conference for Education, Science and Culture in Samarcande (Ouzbekist).

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Khaled el-Enany will succeed a French

Khaled El-Enany will officially assume his duties on November 14, happening to the French Audrey Azoulay, in office since 2017.

Then he will become the first general director of the UNESCO of an Arab country, and the second African after the Amadou Mahtar Mbow (1974-1987) Senegalese.