The aim of this paper is to assess the extent of corporate governance voluntary disclosure and the impact of a comprehensive set of corporate governance attributes (board composition, board size, CEO duality, director ownership, block-holder ownership and the existence of audit committee) on the extent of corporate governance voluntary disclosure in Egypt. The measurement of disclosure is based on published data created from a checklist developed by the United Nations, which was gathered from a manual review of financial statements and websites of a sample of Egyptian companies listed on Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX). Although the levels of CG disclosure are found to be minimal, however disclosure is high for items that are mandatory under the Egyptian Accounting Standards (EASs).The failure of companies to disclose such information clearly shows some ineffectiveness and inadequacy in the regulatory framework in Egypt.Moreover, the phenomenon of non-compliance may also be attributed to the socio-economic factors in Egypt. Therefore, it is expected that Egyptian firms will take a long time to appraise the payback of increased CG disclosure. The findings indicate that that -ceteris paribus -the extent of CG disclosure: (1) is lower for companies with duality in position and higher ownership concentration as measured by block-holder ownership;and (2)

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