Professional Affiliation

Trade and Commercial Office, UAE Embassy in Washington, DC

Expert Bio

El Hussein El Gaafary serves in the Trade and Commercial Office at the United Arab Emirates’ Embassy in Washington D.C. Raised between Egypt, the UAE, and the United States, Hussein is a graduate of George Washington University and previously worked for Lockheed Martin in Abu Dhabi. He has spent the past decade supporting many of the largest US-UAE bilateral trade and investment projects and also served as sherpa in supporting the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop28) in Dubai.