- Atef Sedki
Infobox Prime Minister
name = Atef Sedki
عاطف محمد نجيب صدقي
order =Prime Minister of Egypt
president =Hosni Mubarak
birth_date =29 August 1930
birth_place = flagicon|EgyptTanta ,Egypt
death_date = death date and age|2005|02|25|1930|08|29
term_start =10 November 1986
term_end =2 January 1996
predecessor =Ali Mahmoud Lutfi
successor =Kamal Ganzouri
party =National Democratic Party (Egypt)
religion =Islam (Sunni)Dr. Atef Muhammad Sedki (
29 August 1930 –25 February 2005 ) ( _ar. عاطف محمد نجيب صدقي) was the Prime Minister ofEgypt from 1986 until 1996. He replacedAli Mahmoud Lutfi onNovember 10 ,1986 .In November 1993, he survived an assassination attempt in
Cairo by the militant Islamic groupVangards of Conquest , which resulted in the death of a schoolgirl. On2 January 1996 , he along with his cabinet resigned; his post was filled two days later byKamal Ganzouri . Sedki is considered the longest serving prime minister in the Egyptian Republic Era.Sedki was born in the
Nile Delta city ofTanta . He was a lawyer and economist by training, receiving a doctorate in economics from theUniversity of Paris inFrance . Before becoming prime minister, he was the director of the Egyptian Central Auditing Agency. As prime minister, he supervised and sometimes criticized reforms suggested by theInternational Monetary Fund .In 2004, Sedki became ill after fracturing his thigh. He died on
25 February ,2005 only a few hours after having been rushed to a Cairo hospital. Sedki was survived by his German-born wife, Ursula, and their two children.
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