HE Ghada Fathi Waly is currently appointed as Minister of Social Solidarity. Her work experience includes more than 24 years in the field of Development and Poverty Reduction. In the frame work of her position, she is the Chairperson of Nasser Social Bank , National Center for Social and Criminology Research , National Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction ,The Executive Council of Arab Ministers of Social Affairs , National Authority of Social Insurance as well as the Vice-chairperson of the Egyptian Red Crescent Association.

Throughout her professional experience, she had leadership positions as being Managing Director of Social Fund for Development SFD, a multi-million dollars SME’s Fund. Assistant Resident Representative for Poverty reduction at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Micro Finance and Access to Finance Advisor to the Chairman of Egypt Financial Supervisory Authority, and Executive Committee Member for one year , Program Director of CARE International in Egypt, working in Poverty Alleviation in Upper Egypt, Micro Finance and Community Development Team Leader at SFD ,Co-chair of SMEs donors subgroup for six years.

Ms. Waly sits on the Board of a variety of CS organizations and is an advocate for women empowerment and SMEs.