During his tenure as a Minister of State for Administrative Development, he was awarded the 2007 Middle East Eminent Persons from Singapore.

[3] The entire Nazif Cabinet resigned with the orders of then-president Hosni Mubarak as part of the political concessions done during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

During her tenure, the Suez Canal Economic Zone is reported to have attracted investments for 30 different logistical projects amounting to 20 million US Dollars.

[5][6] In April 2017, A presidential decree was issued replacing Darwish with Mohab Mamish[7] who is also serving as the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority at that time.

Ahmed Darwish serves on the board of advisors in various companies including the government-affiliated Egyptian National Competitiveness Council,[8] Banque Du Caire,[9] Bibliotheca Alexandrina[10] School of Business at the American University in Cairo[11] and the investment company 138 Pyramids.