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| Egypt's new Cabinet of Ministers during the official ceremony (Image: The Star) |
After Egypt's
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb and his government resigned last week Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has appointed former Petroleum Minister Sherif
Ismail the state's new Prime Minister. The new Cabinet was formed, as some
ministers kept their positions since the previous government, while the Cabinet
saw 16 new appointments and some internal structural changes within the
Cabinet.
The new Cabinet
has sworn in early on Saturday, 19 September, taking oath in front of Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
The new Cabinet
consists of 33 ministers. Some ministries within the Cabinet were merged into
one, namely Ministry of Health and Population were merged into one, Ministry of
Education and Technical Education, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific
Research.
Thus, former
Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail was appointed as a new Egypt's Prime
Minister. He made a great career as an engineer and had a story of membership
in various political parties. Sherif Ismail is not a public figure and tries to
avoid too much media attention, choosing not to express his political views and
ideas and preferring to concentrate on the technical issues of the Cabinet's
work. Sherif Ismail was born in 1955 and has graduated from Cairo Ain Shams
University. He worked for a while for an international oil company Mobil, then
later he joined Egyptian state-owned Engineering for the Petroleum and Process
Industries. He served as a Minister of Petroleum in Ibrahim Mehleb's Cabinet.
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| New government takes an oath in font of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Ssis (Image: Al-Arabia) |
The Cabinet
consists of 33 ministers, 17 of them served in Ibrahim Mehleb's government,
while 16 others were new faces in Egyptian government.
1. Minister
of Defense - Sedki Sobhi. He remained on his positions since he was
appointed Minister of Defense in 2014 and resigned from this position in order
to run for presidency. Sedki Sobhi has graduated from Egypt's Military Academy
and build a bright military career becoming a Commander of Egypt's Third Army
responsible for South Sinai and Suez. He also served as a Minister of Defense in
Ibrahim Mehleb's government.
2. Minister
of Interior - Magdi Abdel Ghaffar. He was appointed Minister of Interior by
Ibahim Mehleb to replace Mohamed Ibrahim and remained on this position in the
new government as well. He has close ties with Egypt's National Security
Apparatus that was established after the dissolution of the State Security
Apparatus after the 2011 Revolution.
3. Minister
of Education and Technical Education - El-Hilali El-Shebini, who served as
a dean of the Faculty of Specialized Education at Mansoura University and also
as a cultural advisor to the Libyan embassy. He also worked in the previous
government as a deputy Minister of Higher Education.
4. Minister
of Higher Education and Scientific Research - Ashraf El-Sheihi, who
graduated from Cairo University, engineering faculty. Earlier in September he
was appointed to the Cabinet of Ibrahim Mehleb.
5. Minister
of Religious Endowments - Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, who was first appointed on
this position in 2014 by the interim President Adly Mansour and remains on this
position since that time. He was a dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at
Al-Azhar University in Cairo and a member of Al-Azhar Senior Clerical
Institute.
6. Minister
of Planning - Ashraf El-Araby, who was first appointed on this position in
the Cabinet of Hisham Qandeel in 2013, under Mohamed Morsi's rule. As a part of
Ibahim Mehleb's Cabinet Mr. El-Araby took part in a mid-term economic
development plan for Egypt that was unveiled during the Economic Conference in
Sharm El-Sheikh in March 2015. In the new Cabinet Mr. El-Araby will also lead
negotiations with the public employees on the by-laws of the legislation and he
will also oversee implementation of the government's economic vision and
administrative reform's plans.
7. Minister
of Agriculture - Essam Fayed, who replaced Salah Ad-Deen Helal who was
forced to resign and was charged of corruption. Essam Fayed is a microbiology
Professor at Cairo Ain Shams University.
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| Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (Image: The Statesman) |
8. Minister
of Health and Population - Ahmed Emad Ed-Deen Rady, who replaces Adel
El-Edawy as a Minister of Health. The new ministry is expected to face many
challenges due to the current situation with the medical sector in the country
and the recent wave of doctors' strikes and protests.
9. Minister
of Justice - Ahmed El-Zend, who was appointed on this position in May 2015,
in Ibrahim Mehleb's Cabinet and remains on his position in the new government
as well. He was a head of a powerful Judges Club in 2009 and is known for his controversial
statements and a fierce opponent of the currently banned and outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood.
10. Minister
of Manpower - Gamal Sorour, former first deputy for migration and foreign
labor at the Ministry of Manpower and then he was appointed on this position in
Ibrahim Mehleb's Cabinet.
11. Minister
of Supply and Internal Trade - Khaled Hanafi, former Head of Internal Trade
development Authority under the Ministry of Supply and a minister in Mehleb's
Cabinet. He reformed food subsidy system in order to eliminate smuggling and
made a wider variety of commodities available for public.
12. Minister
of Electricity - Mohamed Shaker, who retained his position from the
previous Cabinet. His Ministry is set to continue its power diversification
program in Egypt and plans to further liberalize electricity prices in the country.
13. Minister
of Foreign Affairs - Sameh Shoukry, who also served in Ibrahim Mehleb's
Cabinet and remained on his position in the new government as well. He
graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo with the bachelor degree in law
and served as a secretary for information in the cabinet of the former Egypt's
President Hosni Mubarak. He also was Egypt's Ambassador to Austria and is
Egypt's permanent representative to the UN.
14. Minister
of Investment - Ashraf Salman, formerly a co-founder of an investment bank
(Cairo Financial Holding) and an Investment Minister from the previous Cabinet.
He was also one of the key figures during the Egypt's Economic Forum in Sham
El-Sheikh that took place in March 2015.
15. Minister
of Finance - Hany Kadry Dimian, who was appointed on this position in
Ibrahim Mehleb's Cabinet during the rule of an interim President Adly Mansour.
He also led negotiations with the IMF for granting Egypt financial aid.
16. Minister
of Civil Aviation - Hossam Kamal, who was appointed as a Chairman of
EgyptAir in 2013 and also chosen as a representative of Arab Airlines in the
International Aviation Union. He is expected to open the new airports and to
develop and improve the conditions of the existing ones as well. One of the
goals is covering the remote areas of the country.
17. Minister
of Tourism - Hisham Zazou, who serves as a Minister of Tourism since 2012. His
task will be ailing Egypt's tourism sector that suffered a lot since the January
25 Revolution in 2011 and the following turmoil including jihadists' activity
in Sinai.
18. Minister
of Social Solidarity - Ghada Waly, who was a Secretary General of the
Social Development Fund prior to the appointment as a minister in 2014. During
her work at the ministerial office she implemented the first phase of Egypt's
conditional cash transfers program called "Solidarity and Dignity".
19. Minister
of Industry, Foreign Trade and SMEs - Tarek Kabil, who holds a bachelor
degree in mechanical engineering of Alexandria University and served as a
director of Jordan Aircraft Maintenance Limited and was also a partner of
several business groups.
20. Minister
of Communication and Information Technology - Yasser El-Kadi, who served
previously as a CEO of the Information technology Industry Development Agency.
21. Minister
of Culture - Helmy El-Namnam, who was newly appointed to this position by
Egypt's new Prime Minister Sherif Ismail. He is an author, journalist and was a
head of Egypt's National Library and Archives in 2014. He holds a degree in
Philosophy and graduated from Cairo University.
22. Minister
of Petroleum - Tarek El-Molla, who formerly served as a chairman of the
state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation and graduated from Cairo
University.
23. Minister
of Transportation - Saad El-Geyoushi, who is a former head of Egyptian
General Authority for Roads and Bridges.
24. Minister
of Housing - Mostafa Madbouly, who retains his position since his service
in Ibrahim Mehleb's Cabinet. His Ministry was also merged with the Ministry of
Urban Development. He is an architect and urban designer. He also holds a PhD
for urban planning from Cairo University and a postgraduate diploma from the
Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies in Rotterdam.
25. Minister
of Local and Administrative Development - Ahmed Zaki Badr, who previously
served as a Minister of Education under the rule of Hosni Mubarak and was also a
member of the National Democratic Party, currently dissolved and banned.
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| Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and fomer PM Ibrahim Mehleb, who is appointed as a presidential advisor (Image: The Indian Times) |
26. Minister
of Youth and Sports - Khaled Abdel-Aziz, who retains his post from the
previous government.
27. Minister
of Environment - Khaled Fahmy, who served as the country's environment
minister in 2013, during Mohamed Morsi's presidency. He resigned after ouster
of Mohamed Morsi. Mr. Fahmy holds a PhD in economics.
28. Minister
of International Cooperation - Sahar Nasr, who is the third woman to be
appointed as a minister of international cooperation in Egyptian government.
She is a member of the presidential advisory economic council and previously
worked as a leading financial economist in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank Finance and Private Sector Development Department. She received
bachelor degree in economics in American University in Cairo.
29. Minister
of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs - Magdy El-Agaty, who was previously a
vice president of Egypt's State Council, a prestigious judicial body. He has
over 25 years experience in the State Council.
30. Minister
of Irrigation and Water Resources - Hossam Ed-Deen Moghazy, who was the
first appointed Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources in Ibrahim Mehleb's
Cabinet and retains this position in the new government as well.
31. Minister
of Military Production - Mohamed El-Assar, who is a Brigadier General and
is a member of Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), the body that ruled
Egypt during the transitional period after Hosni Mubarak stepped down.
32. Minister
of Antiquities - Mamdouh El-Damaty, a former head of Department of
Antiquities at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He was a member of Ibrahim
Mehleb's Cabinet and retained his position in Sherif Ismail's Cabinet as well.
33. Minister of
Immigration and Egyptian Expatriates Affairs - Nabila Makram. She is a head of
the new ministry introduced by the Cabinet of Ministers of Sherif Ismail. She
is an Egyptian diplomat and served as a consulate general of Egypt in Rome,
Italy, and previously served as a deputy consulate general in Dubai, UAE.
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