[1][2] Hany graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1964, and received an advanced degree in Economics from the Cairo University in 1975.
He was in charge of recruiting private forces to help set up and assist the newly formed United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad in 2007.
[3][4] He was appointed as the Special Representative for MINURSO on 12 October 2009 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Ross, Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara were instrumental in re-uniting about 13000 people who were displaced to different refugee camps as a result of the conflict.
[5] There were allegations that the criticisms of Morocco's role in the 2011 Western Saharan protests, in a report that he sent to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, were added on later.