Moaness Tahoun

The Egyptian Foreign Commercial Service (ECS) works toward opening markets throughout the world to create new opportunities and higher living standards for the Egyptian citizens and businesses. ECS mission is to create prosperity by strengthening the competitiveness of the Egyptian economy, promoting trade and investment, and ensuring fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements.

ECS contributes to Egypt’s economic development through:
§ Advancing Egyptian trade and economic interests around the world;
§ Increasing Egypt's global competitiveness;
§ Promoting the export of Egyptian goods and services in foreign markets;
§ Negotiating and administering trade agreements;
§ Attracting foreign investment into Egypt, and assisting strategic Egyptian investment abroad.
§ Promoting the capacity of Egypt's science and technology sector.

The ECS is committed to helping Egyptian industry increase productivity and develop world-class competitiveness. The ECS promotes best practice in design and manufacture, investment opportunities, and champions each industry's legitimate interests through policy and regulations. Its various business sector units also maintain one-to-one relationships with the leading firms in each economic sector and generally represent the interests of their respective sectors in the development of government policy and implementation of regulation.

The ECS has four outcomes:

§ Egypt's national interests protected and advanced through contributions to international security, national economic and trade performance and global cooperation.
§ Egyptian businesses informed about and provided access to commercial services in Egypt and overseas.
§ Public understanding in Egypt and overseas of Egypt's foreign trade policy and a positive image of Egypt internationally.
§ Efficient management of the Egyptian public assets.

The ECS works to create more job opportunities to the Egyptian nationals and to enhance the Egyptian economy national competitiveness. ECS aims to turn this strategy into reality by means of action under four pillars. These are:

§ Enterprise, Innovation, Growth
§ Quality Work and Learning
§ Making Markets and Regulation Work Better
§ Business Delivery, Modernization & Customer Focus

Mr. Tahoun’s current position provides advice to Egyptian clients on doing business in a complex and rapidly changing global marketplace. His position requires professionals, who must be client-service oriented, self-starters, and take the initiative to seek out new contacts as well as market and sector intelligence in an ever-changing cultural, economic and technological environment.

One of Mr. Tahoun’s primary roles is to recognize and understand international trends, opportunities and risks that need to shape the Egyptian economic development policy, and to offer the government advice on how best to protect and advance Egypt’s well-being. In this way he contributes to the government’s overall objective of transforming Egypt into a dynamic, knowledge-based economy and society, underpinned by the values of fairness, opportunity and security for all.

Mr. Tahoun reviews the international setting in which Egypt pursues its external economic policies. He looks for current trends and key drivers for change, seeking to identify opportunities and risks that may impact on the Egyptian economic and trade policy objectives. Then, he sets out the broad initiatives which the ECS plans to pursue over the subsequent twelve months, as well as outlining longer term policy objectives.

Joined 2011