Ambassador Mohamed Alorabi is an Egyptian career diplomat and politician. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1976, Ambassador Alorabi was employed by the Egyptian Army. He was Deputy Chief of the Egyptian mission to Israel from 1994 to 1998 as well as the USA. He has also previously served in Kuwait and the United Kingdom as an Egyptian diplomat, as Chief of the Cabinet for the Foreign Minister in 2000 with H.E. Amr Moussa, and was the Egyptian Ambassador to Germany. Ambassador Alorabi also acted as Assistant Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs and was appointed Foreign Minister in June 2011, temporarily replacing Nabil Al Arabi. Currently, he serves as a Member of the Egyptian Parliament and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.