Here s a look at the life of Amr Moussa, Egyptian diplomat, ambassador and former minister of foreign affairs.
1958 -- 1972 - Works in several different governmental departments including Egypt's missions to the United Nations.
Assistant to the Egyptian minister of foreign affairs, 1974 -- 1977.
Director of the Department of International Organizations in Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1977 -- 1981.
Director of International Organizations in Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, between 1986 and 1990.
Permanent representative of Egypt to the UN in 1990 -- 1991.
Sixth Secretary General of the League of Arab States was created in 2001 -- 2011.
Moussa meets Hamas leader Ismail Haniya on June 13, 2010 in Gaza, the first senior Arab leader to visit Gaza since 2006.
February 4, 2011 - Moussa participates in demonstrations in Cairo in order to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. I am available to my country, he hints at presidential ambitions on a French radio station. I am ready to serve as a citizen who is entitled to be a candidate. He will run for president on February 27, 2011.
May 23 -- 24, 2012 - Loses the presidential election as the majority of votes for the president are cast for Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, forcing a runoff election between the two in June.
June 24, 2012 - Egypt's national elections commission announced that Morsy defeated former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq in presidential run-off elections with 51.7% of the vote. Moussa asks the president to head an emergency government of technocrats for six to 12 months, according to state-owned news agency MENA.
December 2012 - CNN reports on the formation of the National Salvation Front, a coalition of several liberal parties and prominent political figures including Moussa, Hamdeen Sabbahi, Mohamed ElBaradei and Usama Ghazali Harb.
In March 2013, US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Moussa and others in Egypt while on his first overseas trip since becoming secretary.
Volume one of Moussa's memoirs titled Ketabiyah My Testimony is published September 2017.
Moussa's media office announces that he has tested positive for Covid - 19 on January 1, 2021. In a statement to the state-owned Al Ahram news outlet, his office said that he does not need to be transferred to a hospital and that his condition is stable.