Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi[a] (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician
serving as the sixth and current President of Egypt since 2014. A former General, he previously served as Director of Military Intelligence from 2010 to 2012, Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2014, and Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt from 2013 to 2014. He served as Chairperson of the African Union from 2019 to 2020.[1]
Sisi was born in Cairo and after joining the Egyptian Army, held a post in Saudi Arabia before enrolling in the Egyptian Army's Command and Staff College. In 1992, Sisi trained at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom, and then in 2006 trained at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Sisi served as a mechanized infantry commander and then as director of military intelligence. After the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and election of Mohamed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency, Sisi was appointed Minister of Defence by Morsi on 12 August 2012, replacing the Mubarak-era Hussein Tantawi.
THE HEAD OF THE EGYPTIAN STATE