George Saad

George Saad is a founding partner of GYA and a Member of the Egyptian Senate, serving on its Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee. He has more than forty years of legal and judicial experience, including service as Presiding Judge at the Cairo Court of Appeal and Head of the Technical Office of the Prosecutor General.

He headed the Technical Office from October 2019 to October 2023. His responsibilities included the technical review of criminal cases, the review and challenge of judgments, and the preparation of cassation memoranda in criminal, economic and civil matters.

He also oversaw international judicial cooperation, including the examination of requests involving foreign states and bodies and the monitoring of INTERPOL notices. His work also concerned asset-freezing and travel-ban decisions.

During that period, he served as Secretary-General of the National Committee for the Recovery of Funds and Assets Abroad and as a member of the Board of Trustees of Egypt’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Unit. His international assignments included leading the Egyptian Public Prosecution delegation to Madrid in 2021 for the recovery of smuggled Egyptian antiquities.

His legislative work has included committees examining criminal procedure, anti-money-laundering and illicit-gains legislation. He has also lectured judges and prosecutors on criminal procedure, penal law, asset-freezing procedures and financial and economic legislation at the Ministry of Justice’s Judicial Studies Center and the Public Prosecution Institute for Criminal Research.