Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is the sixth and current President of Egypt, in office since 2014.
Born in Gamaleya, Old Cairo, Sisi graduated from Egyptian Military Academy. Sisi held various command positionsin the Egyptian Armed Forces and served as Egypt's military attaché in Riyadh. Sisi attended the Egyptian Command and Staff College in 1987. He attended the Joint Services Command and Staff College in 1992 and the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania in 2006.
Sisi was the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, serving as the director of military intelligence and reconnaissance department. He was later chosen to replace Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and serve as the commander-in-chief and Minister of Defence and Military Production on 12 August 2012. As chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Sisi ousted President Mohammed Morsi after an uprising against him in 2013. Sisi installed an interim government and remained as Minister of Defence in addition to becoming First Deputy Prime Minister.
On 26 March 2014, amid calls for Sisi to run for president, he resigned from the military announcing he would stand as a candidate in the 2014 presidential election. The poll, held between 26 and 28 May 2014[3] resulted in Sisi winning the presidency. Sisi was sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.