Mr. Salah Khaled (Egypt) is appointed as the Director of UNESCO Office for Gulf States and Yemen, and UNESCO Representative to Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, as of 1 May 2022. He has served with UNESCO since 2001, taking up several key positions in the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, including some post-conflict and post-disaster countries. He is a graduate of the American University in Cairo with a BA in Polical Sciences and a MBA in Human Development from the Arab Academy in Alexandria.