Mona Zulficar

Organizations: Law Firms, NGOs

Professions: Lawyer

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Lawyer, Expert in International Law and Finance.

Mona Zulficar

1948

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK

Zulficar & Partners Law Firm.

12 Maraashly St, Zamalek.

Cairo

Egypt

+2 2737 0662

+2 2735 1697

msz@zulficarpartners.com

Education

LLB, Mansoura University, 1980.

BSc, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1969.

languages

Arabic

English

French

COMPETENCES

Banks and financial markets.

Human rights.

Project funding.

WORK HISTORY

Founder and Chair of Executive Committee, Zulficar & Partners Law Firm, 2009-Present.

Managing Partner and Chair of Executive Committee, Shalakany Law Office, 2006-2009.

Honorary office and memberships

Member, Egypt's 50-Member Constitution Committee, 2013.

Board Member, Central Bank of Egypt.

Member, US-Egypt Business Council.

Member, Council of Advisers of the World Bank for Middle East & North Africa Region.

Member and Vice Chair, UN Human Rights Council’s Advisory Committee.

Board of Trustees Member, Women and Memory Forum.

Productions and Works

Speaker at Harvard Law School Islamic Studies Workshop in 1996 and International Conference on the Islamic Marriage Contract in January 1999 and author of chapter on “The New Islamic Marriage Contract".

AWARDS

Selected in December 1994 by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Global young leaders of the 21st Century.

La Légion d'Honneur by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy for her significant rule in reinforcing transactions between Egypt and France and for her achievements in the field of human rights, 2009.

CEWLA Award for her unique role in the issue of equal right to divorce law (Khul) by Law No. 1/2000, in 2003.

Cairo Governor Award 2000 for defending women’s rights, in addition to the Awards of Assiut Governor and the President of Assiut University, 1999 & 2000 for her key role in establishing the Cancer Hospital in Assiut University.

UNDP Award on the occasion of celebrating International Women's Day in Cairo, 1995.