Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (Arabic: أحمد عصمت عبد المجيد‎; 22 March 1923 – 21 December 2013) was an Egyptian diplomat.

[4] He joined the Egyptian foreign ministry in 1950 and worked in several departments, notably the British and French sections.

In 1967 he was appointed as Chairman of the State Information Service, a post he held for a year.

[5] He became ambassador to France in 1970, deputy foreign minister in 1970, and Egypt's high representative to the United Nations in 1972.

He served in that position until 1983, and was then foreign minister from 1984 to 1991, when he was elected secretary-general of the Arab League.