Mohamed El Ghazaly has been the IFAD Country Director in Uganda since January 2022. Prior to that he served as Acting Country Director for Egypt Portfolio (Largest in NEN), from July 2020 to June 2022 and since February 2019 he was the Country Programme Officer for Egypt and Syria.

Prior to joining IFAD as staff, El Ghazaly has been working as a Monitoring and Evaluation consultant since 2005. He has worked with IFAD in more than 20 countries in different regions including East and Southern Africa, Near East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Before joining IFAD, El-Ghazaly was vice president of El-Zanaty & Associates which is one of the large private sector firms in the field of research, consultancy and evaluation. He led major evaluations done by the firm for agriculture sector including evaluations on the Integrated Water Resources Management Programme in Egypt. He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of programme management, rural development, research and monitoring and evaluation.

El-Ghazaly holds a MBA in Business Administration from the Arab Academy of Science and Technology (Egypt) and B.Sc. in Foreign Trade from Helwan University (Egypt).