Alaa Fouad

Alaa El-Din Fouad (born 1965) is an Egyptian lawyer, judge and current minister of Parliamentary Affairs.^[1] He served as executive director of the National Elections Authority from 2017 until his appointment as minister.

career

Fouad, a trained lawyer, began his legal career as a deputy to the public prosecutor and rose through the ranks to become head of public prosecution in Cairo.^[2] He was promoted to the position of a judge and appointed the head of Appeals Court serving concurrently as a member of the Judicial Inspection Unit in 2017. In same 2017, he was appointed executive director of the National Electoral Commission (NEC).^[3] He remained in this position until 13 August 2022 when he was appointed mister of Parliamentary Affairs. He succeeded Omar Marwan.^[4]