An haifi Boutros Boutros-Ghali a Alkahira, Misira, a ranar 14 ga Nuwamba, 1922 a cikin dangin Kirista na Coptic. Mahaifinsa Yusuf Butros Ghali shi ne dan Boutros Ghali Bey sannan Pasha (kuma sunansa), wanda ya kasance Firayim Ministan Masar daga 1908 har sai an kashe shi a 1910. Mahaifiyarsa Safela Mikhail Sharubim 'yar Mikhail Sharubim (1861<unk>1920), fitaccen ma'aikacin gwamnati da kuma masanin tarihi.Boutros-Ghali ya kammala karatu daga Jami'ar Cairo a 1946. Ya sami digiri na PhD a cikin dokar kasa da kasa daga Jami'ar Paris da difloma a cikin dangantakar kasa da kasa daga Sciences Po a 1949. A lokacin 1949<unk>1979, an nada shi Farfesa na Nazarin Harkokin Kasuwanci da Harkokin Kasuwanci a Cairo. Ya zama Shugaban Cibiyar Nazarin Siyasa da Nazarin Harkokin Siyasa a 1975 da Shugaban Ƙungiyar Nazarin Siyasa na Afirka a 1980.
Yusuf Butros Ghali