Ehaab Abdou is co-founder and the current chairperson of Nahdet El Mahrousa , an Egyptian youth-led non-governmental organization (NGO) that was established in 2002. He also serves as the president of the Egyptian. He also serves as the president of the Egyptian Federation of Youth NGOs, established in 2006. The Federation is the national no-governmental umbrella for all youth-led NGOs in Egypt.

In 1999, he helped establish, and became the first president of, Fat’het Kheir (, an Egyptian youth-led voluntary organization offering an innovative model in community development. In 1995, as an AUC student, he was the president of AIESEC in Egypt. In 2004, Abdou earned his master’s degree in international development from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His master’s focused on NGOs and the Civil Society including research on the role of local philanthropy, fair trade, and the role of NGOs in development. His undergraduate degree in Business Management was received from the American University in Cairo (AUC) in 1997. In 2004, Abdou was selected as a "social entrepreneur” by the Ashoka Foundation.