Sahar Albazar

Sahar Albazar is an Egyptian member of Parliament and serves as deputy chair of the Foreign Relations Committee at the Egyptian House of Representatives, where she was recently selected as the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee for the majority political party. She is currently leading efforts within the Egyptian government to introduce the Egyptian AI governance bill. A former president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union's Forum of Young Parliamentarians, Albazar currently serves as the elected chair of the Women Parliamentary Council of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund, as well as an elected executive board member with Parliamentarians for Global Action, in New York. She is also a founding member and chairwoman for the Ubuntu Initiative, a parliamentary initiative for climate finance. In 2022, Albazar was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and was selected as a World Fellow by Yale University. In 2024, she was selected as a University of Hong Kong AsiaGlobal fellow and an Obama Foundation Leader representing Africa. Albazar holds a master's degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School.