Farag Moussa followed in his father's footsteps to work with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry (1951-1957). He went on to the League of Arab States (1958-1969) as a diplomat and a public relations officer. He then joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations organisation, where he worked for 20 years, where he was dealing mainly with Egypt and the Arab countries. For more than 14 years following his retirement he was elected President of the International Federation of Inventors' Association (IFIA) an organisation representing associations from over 80 countries. Specialist in history and diplomacy as well as in the world of invention, Dr Farag Moussa is the author of several books in French, some of which have been translated into English, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Finnish and Dutch. Dr Moussa has received several distinctions, in particular the Middle Cross of the Merit Order, which was conferred by the President of the Republic of Hungary in 1996.