Egypt and the Future of the Middle East with Ambassador Hossam Aly, Ph.D.

Speakers

Hossam Aly - Consul General, Egypt in Los Angeles

Ambassador Dr. Hossam Eldeen Aly is currently the Consul General of Egypt in Los Angeles since November 1, 2023 after serving as Director of Department of Israel at the headquarters of Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, since September 2020. Between August 2016 and August 2020, he served as the Ambassador of Egypt to Ukraine following his role as Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for Disarmament and Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy Affairs at the Ministry.

Between 2007 and 2011, he served in New York as Egypt’s United Nations First Committee senior officer and was later appointed by the United Nations Secretariat as "Senior Advisor on Disarmament and International Security" to the President of the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (D2 level) (2011-2012).

He was Director for Disarmament Affairs (Counsellor) between October 2013 and September 2015 and before that the Director for Security and Strategic Organizations Department since September 2012.

Between 2005 and 2007, he was Director for Disarmament Affairs a.i. (First Secretary) at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, after serving as International Cooperation officer (P4 level), then as Senior Liaison and International Cooperation Officer (P5 level) at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Preparatory Commission’s Technical Secretariat in Vienna, Austria (2000-2005). Between 1996 and 2000, he was Alternate Representative of the Egyptian Permanent Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), CTBTO Preparatory Commission, and OSCE in Vienna.

Since the early 1990's, Ambassador Aly represented Egypt in numerous international security, non-proliferation, and disarmament negotiations and expert meetings. He was extensively involved, in particular, in the nuclear field - both in the context of the review process of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and at the work of the IAEA in the area of nuclear safeguards and verification. He participated in negotiations on drafting the IAEA Additional Protocol in the mid-1990s and was a member of the IAEA Advisory Committee on Safeguards and Verification (2005-2006). 

Kiron Skinner - Taube Family Chair of International Relations and Politics, Pepperdine University, School of Public Policy

International relations, US foreign policy, and political strategy expert Kiron Skinner is the Taube Family Chair of International Relations and Politics at Pepperdine School of Public Policy. She is the founding director of the Grand Strategy Program in the School of Public Policy and the founding director of the University's Institute for Diplomacy, Security, and Innovation. She is also the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a senior advisor to the president of the Heritage Foundation.

Skinner previously served as the Taube Professor for International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she founded and directed several centers and institutes, including the Carnegie Mellon University Washington Semester Program. Skinner's past government service includes membership on the US Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board as an adviser on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the Defense Business Board, the Chief of Naval Operations' Executive Panel, the National Academies Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, the National Academies Committee on International Talent Programs in the Changing Global Environment, and the National Security Education Board. From 2012 to 2015 she served on Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs.