Ambassador Alaa Youssef tapped as UNESCO permanent rep; Elena Panova is UN resident coordinator in Egypt

Bulgaria’s Elena Panova has been appointed as the United Nations’ Resident Coordinator in Egypt, the UN information center in Cairo announced on its website. Panova previously served as resident coordinator in Turkmenistan, and has specific experience in government and private sector funding.

Egypt’s ambassador to France Alaa Youssef is now the nation’s permanent representative at UNESCO after submitting his credentials to UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay in Paris earlier this week, the Foreign Ministry announced at the end of last week.