Prof. Dr. Essam Fayed, a professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University and a former Minister of Agriculture, has been selected as a member of the Supreme Advisory Board of the General Secretariat of the Council of Arab Economic Unity.

Dr. Essam Fayed worked as a professor of food technology at the Department of Dairy at Ain Shams University and as a dean of the Faculty of Agriculture for Environmental Development in 2007, then dean of the faculty from 2009 to 2010, then he took the position of agricultural advisor to the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, then Minister of Agriculture in 2015.