Born in 1941 in Cairo. Shafiq graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1961. Shafiq holds a master’s degree in military sciences and a doctorate in military strategy. He fought in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war as a senior fighter pilot under the command of Mubarak.
	Born in 1936 in Cairo, he earned a degree in law from Cairo University in 1957, and began his diplomatic career shortly following his graduation. Moussa held the position of minister of foreign affairs from 1991 to 2001. He was then removed from his post by former president Mubarak and made the secretary-general of the Arab League, a position he held until 2011.
	Born in 1954 in Kafr El-Sheikh, Sabbahi studied mass communication at Cairo University. In 1996 Sabbahi founded the Arab Nasserist Karama party, and was twice elected to the People's Assembly - in 2000 and 2005. Sabbahi was jailed several times over the course of his political career.
	Born in 1972 in Daqahliya, Khaled Ali graduated from Zagazig University’s law faculty in 1995. In 2009, Ali founded the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), a prominent human and labour rights advocacy group. Ali has achieved a number of notable victories as a lawyer. Most famously, in March 2010, he obtained a landmark ruling in a class-action lawsuit that mandated an LE1,200 minimum wage for public-sector workers.
	Born in 1951 in Cairo. He graduated with a law degree from Cairo University in 1976. He worked for eight years as a deputy prosecutor at the customs authority and the minors authority in Alexandria. In 1988 he became a judge in the Cassation Court. El-Bastawisi was a key figure in the reformist Independence of the Judiciary movement, and played an important role in the confrontation between judges and the Mubarak regime.
	Born in 1945 in Sharqiya. Graduated from the faculty of economics and political science at Cairo University. He later studied law at Alexandria University and earned a doctorate in international law He entered the foreign service in 1968, serving in Bahrain, Jeddah, Riyadh, Nigeria and Greece. He also held a number of positions within the ministry.
	Born in 1944 in Daqahliya. He graduated from a technical industrial high school in 1962 and began work at the state-owned National Textile Company in Alexandria. El-Hariri joined the state-controlled Arab Socialist Union and the Youth Organisation in 1966, under the Nasser regime that had banned all independent political parties in the 1950s.
	Born in 1945. Has a law degree from Ain Shams University. He also has a diploma in police sciences from the Police Academy. He began his career as a police officer in the Abdeen police station in Cairo. He then worked in the investigations department in the village of Naga Hammadi in Upper Egypt.
	Former deputy director of intelligence. He comes from a long line of security officers: his father is Major-General Ahmed Hossam Khairallah, founder of Egypt’s Central Security Agency, former Cairo security director, former governor of Aswan, and former deputy prime minister.
	Born in 1964 in Alexandria. His father and grandfather both served in the armed forces. He graduated from the Police Academy in 1958, and held several police posts. He worked at the UN Middle Eastern human rights department from 1992 to 1994
	Born in 1951 in Cairo. Abul-Fotouh graduated from medical school at Cairo University in 1976. He served in the guidance office of the Brotherhood, the highest executive body of the group, from 1987 to 2009. He was also jailed three times during his years as a Brotherhood member.
	Born in 1951 in Sharqiya. Mohamed Mursi is the president of the Muslim Brotherhood’s first political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). The party was licensed following the ousting of Mubarak. He earned an engineering degree in 1972, followed by a master's from Cairo University.
	Born in 1942 in Alexandria. Obtained a doctorate in philosophy from London in 1972. His father was among the disciples of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan El-Banna. He was arrested in 1965 by former president Gamal Abdel-Nasser during a clampdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, and charged with being a member of a banned group.