Ahmed Nazif

Ahmed Nazif أحمد نظيف
Prime Minister of Egypt
In office 14 July 2004 – 31 January 2011[1]
President	Hosni Mubarak
Preceded by	Atef Ebeid
Succeeded by	Ahmed Shafik
1st Minister of Communications and Information Technology
In office 5 October 1999 – 14 July 2004
Prime Minister	Atef Ebeid
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Tarek Kamel
Personal details
Born	8 July 1952 (1952-07-08) (age 59) Alexandria, Egypt
Political party	National Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Mona Sayed Adbul Fattah (Deceased) Zeinab Zaki (2010–present)
Alma mater	Cairo University McGill University
Religion	Islam

Ahmed Nazif (Arabic: أحمد نظيف‎, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈæħmæd nɑˈzˤiːf]) (born July 8, 1952 in Alexandria) served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Nazif was Acting President of Egypt from 5 March to 15 April 2010, when President Mubarak delegated his authorities to Nazif while undergoing surgery in Germany.

Government

President Hosni Mubarak invited him to form the new government on 9 July 2004. Prime Minister Nazif was sworn in together with fourteen new cabinet ministers on 14 July 2004. He received immediate parliamentary backing through a formal vote of confidence. He was the youngest serving prime minister of Egypt since the founding of the Republic and the second youngest prime minister in the history of modern Egypt. His cabinet was known to be mainly composed of technocrats and well educated neo-liberals.

Having come to power replacing outgoing Prime Minister Atef Obeid who resigned at an emergency cabinet meeting, prompting the collapse of the four-year-old 34-member cabinet, pressure to undergo reforms was ripe. Nazif had served as the Minister for Communications and Information Technology in the Obeid Government. Before that, Nazif was a professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.

Nazif with George W. Bush

However, following the unprecedented riots across Egypt, President Mubarak announced in his first appearance since the riots began that he had asked Nazif and his government to resign as a result of the protest, effectively sacking one of the modern Republic's longest-serving governments. Ahmed Shafik, who had been Minister of Civil Aviation, was appointed to replace Nazif as Prime Minister on 29 January 2011.

During his tenure as Minister for Communications and Information Technology he was credited with establishing Egypt's free internet connectivity plan as well as improving public access to computers through low-price computers sold by private producers through the Egyptian Telecommunications Company (Telecom Egypt), which falls under the jurisdiction of the Ministry for Communications and Information Technology. Nazif's successor in the ministry of communications and long time friend Tarek Kamel has collaborated strongly to enhance the Egyptian role in international IT markets and improve local infrastructure to support Egypt's exponentially growing demand for IT applications in everyday life.

He was sent to jail on April 11 2011 and has been charged with wasting public money and corruption.

Education and Family

• Graduated from El Nasr Boys' School (EBS) in Alexandria, Egypt in 1969.
• B.Sc. from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, majoring in Communication and Electronics.
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1976.^[2]
• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at McGill University, Canada in 1983.^[3][4]
• Nazif's wife died in 2009.
• Nazif resides in a suburban complex with his 2 sons. He is the son of former wealthy sailor who owned a sea shipping company, Mahmoud Nazif. His grandfather Mohammed Bey Nazif was undersecretary of Ministry of Health in the time of King Farouk.
• On January 18, 2010, it was officially announced that Nazif will get married to Zeinab Zaki, vice president of Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), in February 2010.^[5]

See also

• List of national leaders
• Egypt
• Prime minister of Egypt

References

1. ^ Rulers.org - Egypt
2. ^ Prime Minister
3. ^ Al-Ahram Weekly http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/699/eg3.htm
4. ^ Prime Minister
5. ^ عقد قران الدكتور أحمد نظيف الشهر القادم على مسئولة بوزارة الاتصالات

External links

• Article in Egypt Today Magazine

Political offices
New office	Minister of Communications and Information Technology 1999–2004	Succeeded by Tarek Kamel
Preceded by Atef Ebeid	Prime Minister of Egypt 2004–2011	Succeeded by Ahmed Shafik

Persondata
Name	Nazif, Ahmed
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Date of birth	8 July 1952
Place of birth	Alexandria, Egypt
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