Secretary General of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has been promoted by Saudi Arabia as the next UN Secretary General.
Anvar Ashki, head of the Saudi Arabian Center for Strategic Studies, said that the OIC had achieved great success in politics, humanitarian and cultural affairs.
Ihsanoglu was born in Egypt in 1943. He graduated at the Ayn Shams University in Cairo, taught the Turkish language and literature, worked in Ankara and Istanbul. He became the OIC Secretary General on January 1, 2005. He is a member of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences and an honorary PhD of MGIMO. He called Russian President Vladimir Putin a friend in an interview.
