Ehaab Dyaa Ahmed Kamal Abdou is co-founder and the current managing director of Nahdet El Mahrousa , an Egyptian youth-led non-governmental organization (NGO) that was established in 2002. He is also the elected president of the Egyptian Federation of Youth NGOs.

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.

In 2004, Ehaab earned his master’s degree in international development from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His master’s focused on NGOs and the Civil Society including research on the role of local philanthropy, fair trade, and the role of NGOs in development. His undergraduate degree in management was received from the American University in Cairo in 1997. Starting Fall 2006, he also started co-teaching an undergraduate course on NGO Management under the Management department of the American University in Cairo.

Bettween 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.

In August 2007, he was honored by AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, at its 2007 International Congress in Istanbul, Turkey. Ehaab was the first Egyptian to be awarded the "Global AIESEC Alumni Entrepreneurship and Leadership Award".

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