According to the results of the vote, the members of the UNESCO Executive Board nominated Khaled El-Enany, a representative of Egypt, for the position of Director-General of the organization.

This nomination will be submitted to a vote by all member states at the UNESCO General Conference, which will take place on November 6 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. After being elected by the General Conference, he will assume the position in mid-November 2025, succeeding Audrey Azoulay.

Khaled Ahmed El-Enany Ali Ezz, born in 1971, is an Egyptologist and professor of Egyptology at Helwan University. He has been teaching at the university for over 30 years. He has served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, Director of the Open Education Center, and Head of the Department of Tour Guiding.

He earned his PhD in Egyptology from Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University in France and has several times worked there as a visiting professor.

From 2014 to 2016, he headed the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and from 2015 to 2016, he was Director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Between 2016 and 2022, he served as Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, and later as Minister of Tourism and Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt.

He is a member of several international scholarly societies. In November 2024, he was appointed “Special Envoy for Cultural Tourism” by the World Tourism Organization and recently became a patron of the African World Heritage Fund. He has received multiple international awards and speaks Arabic, French, and English.