Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy (born February 4, 1954) is the Deputy Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Syria. [1]
Born on February 4, 1954, Ramzy was educated at the American University in Cairo where he received his BA in Economics in 1974, and at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, where he completed his M.Sc. in Economics in 1975.
Ramzy became Deputy Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Syria in September 2014. Before this, he was Head of the Mission of the League of Arab States to Austria and Permanent Observer to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna (May 2013–August 2014). He was also First Under Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt (September – December 2012). Ramzy was Ambassador of Egypt to the Federal Republic of Germany (2008-2012). [2]
Before his assignment to Berlin, Ramzy was the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation (2007–2008). Ramzy served as Ambassador to Austria [3] (2003–2007) where he was also Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organisations based in Vienna. He was Egypt's Governor to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) where he was Vice-Chairman during the period 2005-2006. He was also Egypt's Non-Resident Ambassador to the Slovak Republic (2004–2007). During that period he was also the representative of Egypt to the OSCE.
Ramzy was Ambassador to Brazil (1997–2000) and Non-Resident Ambassador to Suriname and Guyana. He worked at the Egyptian Embassies in Washington, D.C., Moscow and the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations in New York City.
Ramzy was head of Egyptian delegations to the Non-Aligned Ministerial conference (Tehran August 2012), UNCTAD XII (Accra 2008), General Conferences of IAEA, [4] United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as well as the Preparatory Committee of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and OSCE Ministerial Conferences.
Among others, Ramzy has received the Order of Merit, Fifth Class from Egypt and the GRA-CRUZ da Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul from Brazil.
....Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, the Egyptian ambassador to Austria and a vice chair of the IAEA board of governors....