Amre Moussa has more than six decades of experience in diplomacy, foreign policy and multilateral affairs. He served as Secretary-General of the League of Arab States from 2001 to 2011 and as Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2001. Since 2021 he has chaired the Governing Board of Interpeace, the Geneva-based international organisation for peacebuilding, and he chairs the High-Level Advisory Council of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

He joined the Egyptian foreign service in 1958 and served in postings that included Egypt's embassy in Switzerland and its mission to the United Nations. He was Director of the Department of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1981 to 1983, Ambassador to India from 1983 to 1986 and Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations from 1990. Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in May 1991, he led Egyptian diplomacy for a decade.

As Secretary-General of the Arab League, Mr Moussa headed the organisation for a full ten years; during his tenure the League endorsed the Saudi-proposed Arab peace plan of 2002. In 2003 he served on the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. After leaving the League in 2011, he stood as a candidate in Egypt's 2012 presidential election, and in September 2013 he was elected president of the Committee of Fifty that prepared the Egyptian constitution adopted in 2014. He has also served on the African Union's Panel of the Wise.

Mr Moussa holds a law degree from Cairo University, awarded in 1957, and an honorary doctorate from ADA University in Baku. His decorations include the Grand Cordon of Egypt's Order of the Nile, Jordan's Supreme Order of the Renaissance and Sweden's Royal Order of the Polar Star, among honours from numerous other countries. He serves on the boards of institutions including the Library of Alexandria and Nile University, and in 2017 he published a memoir of his diplomatic career.