Ehaab Dyaa Ahmed Kamal Abdou is Ashoka fellow and co-founder and Board member of Nahdet El Mahrousa, an Egyptian youth-led NGO that was established in 2002. He is also co-founder and was the first president of the Egyptian Federation of Youth NGOs (EFYNGO). He currently serves as Advisor to the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

In 2007, he co-founded the Egyptian band “Ana Masry” promoting a strong message of tolerance, diversity and national unity through a unique fusion of Muslim Sufi chanting, Christian hymns as well as his lyrics and music, among others.

He is author of "A Practitioner's Guide for Social Entrepreneurs in Egypt and the Arab Region" (Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo, October 2010).

In July 2009, he joined the Middle East Youth Initiative at Brookings to develop and lead an action-oriented social entrepreneurship program where he co-authored the report "Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Toward Sustainable Development for the Next Generation" (Brookings, April 2010).

In 2004, Ehaab earned his master’s degree in international development from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate degree in management was received from the American University in Cairo in 1997. In the Fall of 2006, he designed and co-taught an undergraduate course on NGO Management under the Management department of the American University in Cairo. He graduated from El Alsson School in Haraneyya, Cairo in 1990/91 and did his final year of IGCSE in 1991/92 at St. George’s International English School, in Rome, Italy.

In 1999, he helped establish, and became the first president of, Fat’het Kheir , an Egyptian youth-led voluntary organization offering an innovative model in community development. In 1995, as an AUC student, he was elected as the president of AIESEC in Egypt.

Between 1997 and 2002, his working experience included being the partnership and business development officer at Canada’s International Development Research Center (IDRC), the Near East Foundation (NEF) Middle East and North Africa regional offices and the Nestle food company in Egypt. In 2004, Ehaab was selected as a "social entrepreneur” by the Ashoka Foundation.