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Hassan Ghazali
Personal Information
  • Name: Hassan Ghazali
  • Program: Misr El Khair Fellowship for “Sustainable Local Development Practitioner”
  • Work Place: Egyptian anthropologist researcher
  • Country: Arab Republic of Egypt
  • Graduation Year: 2023
  • Bio:

    African policy expert in the field of youth, media, culture and sports, member of the specialized technical committee of experts of the African Union, founder and general coordinator of the African Youth Office at the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports, leader of the communication and media team at the peer review mechanism in South Africa and representative of the Advisory Council of the African Trade Agreement. He is attested by a rich professional career spanning more than thirteen years. Ghazali carries a distinct and unique vision and very rich experience. With experiences, challenges, and societal influence internationally, he previously held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the North Africa region from 2014 to 2017, and from 2017 to 2020 he held the position of Vice-President of the African Youth Union, which is the oldest continental youth institution since 1962, in which election is carried out through direct voting by the heads of the National Youth Councils at the level of the African continent.

    His career also enjoys great confidence on the part of continental institutions and decision-making centers at the local, continental and international levels as well, which is always translated into his invitation as a youth mentor in high-level international youth forums, in addition to his invitation as an expert and policy maker, to participate in developing the most important continental frameworks concerned with youth, the most notable of which was his contribution to developing the “framework document defining the role of youth in peace and security” in November. 2020, and also participated in developing the provisions of the “Framework Document for Youth and Volunteering within the African Union” and the Continental Strategy for African Youth Employment.

    Ghazali founded many national, African and international projects and programs concerned with developing and empowering young people and enhancing their societal responsibility towards their countries, including the Nasser International Leadership Scholarship, the Afromedia Media Initiative, the African Summer School, the Seeds Project for Parallel Education, the African Union Simulation Model, the Nasser International Youth Movement, the Nile Valley Unity Project, Future Visions, and others.

    Ghazali has received many international awards, including winning the African Youth Impact and Youth Development Award - African Leadership and Entrepreneurship Center (PALEDEC), Tanzania, in November 2022, in addition to winning third place in the Struggle Activity Award of the “African Rising Youth” organization at the level of the African continent, and earlier in November 2019 winning the African Youth Personality of the Year Award in Ghana, as well as being selected among 30 An influential young man in Europe and Africa, which was announced in Gambia in 2019.

    At the national level, the Darfur Students Association in Egyptian universities and institutes honored him in the year 2021 as one of the influential young leaders on the African scene, in addition to honoring him in the same year by the National Police Academy, in appreciation of his efforts in supporting and developing the capabilities of young people. The Ministry of Planning, Follow-up and Administrative Reform also honored him in appreciation of his effective role in serving the African continent, in addition to honoring him from Al-Ahram Canadian University for his efforts in supporting African students. In Egypt in 2018, in addition to being honored by the Supreme Council of Culture (Youth Committee) in recognition of the efforts it made towards Egyptian youth, in addition to being honored by the INJAZ Egypt Foundation for his volunteer efforts in developing school students in the most needy communities, he also previously won the Arab-African Youth Council Award in 2016 for his initiative to establish the African Youth Office as the best continental volunteer activity.