Sahar Albazar

Sahar Albazar is an Egyptian Member of Parliament, serving as Deputy Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives and Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee for the Egyptian Majority Political Party, Mostaqbal Watan.

She is the Founding Chairwoman of the Ubuntu Parliamentary Initiative for Climate Finance and serves on the Executive Board of Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) in New York.

Sahar previously served as President of the IPU Forum of Young Parliamentarians and was the Founding Chair of the Women Parliamentary Council of the Parliamentary Network on the IMF and World Bank.

She is a member of the High-Level Advisory Committee to the Vice Prime Minister on Human Development, and an appointed member in the advisory committee to the Minister of International Cooperation, supporting Egyptian startups to expand globally.

Regionally and globally recognised, Sahar was selected by former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as an Amujae Fellow, joining a cohort of Africa’s most promising women public leaders.

She was also named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and a Yale World Fellow in 2022. In 2024, she became an Asia Global Fellow at the University of Hong Kong and was selected as an Obama Leader representing Africa.

She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.