Ekramy El Zaghat

Ekramy El Zaghat is an Egyptian development executive who is the president of the World Fund for Development and Planning.^[1][2][3]

In 2014–2015, El Zaghat was one of the organisers behind efforts to register the Misr al-‘Urūba Democratic Party.^[4][5][6][7]

By 2016, his public activity shifted toward development initiatives linked to the World Fund for Development and Planning, including opening a cultural centre in Cairo under that banner and convening a preparatory roundtable for a planned continental forum on “auxiliary economies”.^{[1] [8][9]} In December 2016, he was linked to the opening of a Ugandan cultural exchange centre in Cairo and was supervising the centre’s advisory work.^[10]

By 2017, he was serving as director-general of the Intergovernmental Collaborative Action Fund for Excellence (ICAFE), discussing that body’s partnerships and youth-oriented education programmes.^[3] In the same month, he criticised the United States decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, a statement given in his ICAFE capacity.^[11] That year, he signed an agreement to establish a water-meter assembly project in Uganda under a development banner.^[12]

In 2019, it was announced that his organisation would suspend work with U.S. governmental and non-governmental bodies in reaction to U.S. policy positions.^[13] In 2021 Sada El-Balad reported that the World Fund for Development and Planning had been granted special consultative status with the UN ECOSOC.^[14]

In 2022, he announced projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a plan to convene a “Sustainable Investment Alliance” conference in 2023, intended to mobilise investment for developing countries.^{[15] [16]} In 2023, he held a meeting in Mogadishu with Somalia’s First Lady in his organisational capacity.^[17]

Previously, he served as secretary-general of the Arab Organization for Human Resources Management and chronicled community programmes and workshops run under that umbrella.^[18][19]