Dr. Ahmed El-Borai is one of the few experts in labor law in both Egypt and the Middle East. He served as the Minister of Manpower and Emigration in 2011 and Minister of Insurance and Social Affairs in 2013. Since 2004, Dr. El-Borai has been a member of the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers.

 

Dr. El-Borai has held numerous academic and professional positions throughout his distinguished career, including:

 

Visiting Professor at Mohammed V University in Morocco (1977) and King Saud University in Saudi Arabia (1977)

Legal Advisor to Cairo University (1983)

Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes (1985)

Cultural Counselor at the Egyptian Embassy in Paris (1986)

Permanent Representative of Egypt to UNESCO (1987)

Member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (1991)

Legal Advisor to the Egyptian Parliament for the Labor Committee (1993)   

Head of Labor Relations at Cairo University Center (1995)

Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne (1997)

Dr. El-Borai currently serves as a Law Professor and Head of the Social Legislation Department at the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, and is an advocate before the Egyptian Court of Cassation and the Conseil d’Etat (since 1983). Since 1995, Dr. El-Borai has been a member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Arab Labor Organization, and since 1999, a member of the Committee of Experts and Advisors of the International Labour Organization.

 

Some of Dr. El-Borai’s publications include: “The International Legal Framework for Migrant Workers: The United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,” July 2007; “The Organization of Labor Migration between Arab States in Accordance with International and Arab Labor Practices” and “The Legal Framework for the Protection of Migrant Workers in Arab States”, research (in both Arabic and English) commissioned by the International Labour Organization for the First Conference on Labor Migration between Arab States.