Dr. Alaa Ezz
Secretary General of Confederation of Egyptian European Chambers and Union of African Chambers
Dr. Ezz has worked in the sustainable development fields for over 30 years during
which he designed and implemented a host of projects and established
companies in Africa, the Mediterranean and Arab regions, encompassing trade &
industry, transport & logistics, tourism, sustainable development, investment
promotion, technology transfer, health, renewable energy & infrastructure,
gender, access to finance, media, and naturally advocacy.
After over a decade ending up as regional director for North Africa and Middle
East in the United Nations Trade and Technology Promotion System, Dr. Ezz
founded EnviroEgypt SAE a leading renewable energies and infrastructure
corporation in the MENA region, then First Undersecretary of State and secretary
general of the federation of Egyptian Chambers for 18 years.
At present, he is The Secretary General of the Union of African Chambers, the
Confederation of Egyptian European Business Associations, the Egyptian
Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce. and the Chairman of the
Confederation of Euro-Mediterranean and Black Sea Business Associations.
Moreover, Dr. Ezz is the Secretary General of the Association of Enterprises for
Environmental Conservation; the vice president of the Associació Mediterrània
del Medi Ambient; the Chairman of the executive board of the Med-Alliance;
member of the executive board of the Association of Mediterranean Chambers
“ASCAME”, the BRICS+ Business Council, and the National Planning Institute,;
and the managing editor of Environment Today and Economy Today Magazines.
After acquiring his M.B.,B.Ch., Dr. Ezz has obtained post graduate degrees in
Economics and Environment. His published work includes tens of scientific
papers and economic studies, hundreds of articles and several books including
“Sustainability and Development, a developing economies perspective”, “Trading
with Free Trade Areas”, and “Environmental Planning for Developing
Economies”.
