Aziz Sedki

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Aziz Sedki

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order = Prime Minister of Egypt
president = Anwar Sadat
birth_date = 1920
birth_place = flagicon|Egypt Cairo, Egypt
death_date = January 26, 2008
death_place = flagicon|France Paris, France
term_start = January 17 1972
term_end = March 26, 1973
predecessor = Mahmoud Fawzi
successor = Anwar Sadat
party = Arab Socialist Union
spouse = Leila Sioufi
religion = Muslim

Aziz Sedki (1920 – January 26, 2008) was an Egyptian politician and engineer. cite news |first=|last=|title=The Death of Former Egyptian Prime Minister Aziz Sedki |url=http://arabdemocracyfoundation.org/news/more2.php?id=44 |work= Arab Democracy Foundation |publisher=|date=2008-01-26 |accessdate=2008-02-24] Sedki served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from January 17, 1972 until March 23, 1976. He was nicknamed the "father of Egyptian industry."

Early life

Aziz Sedki was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1920. He graduated with a degree in engineering from Cairo University in 1944. He went on to earn a doctorate in economic planning from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1945.

Career

Sedki was appointed as a technical adviser to the Egyptian prime minister's office in 1955, a few years after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. He next served as a full time member of the services board until 1956.

In 1956, Sedki was appointed as Egypt's Minister of Industry by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Among Sedki's tasks as Minister was the supervision of an industrialization program, which was financed by the Soviet Union. The Soviets were, at the time, an important ally of the Egpytian government. Sedki launched a five-year industrialization plan in 1957. This initiative was later merged into a "general five-year development plan", which lasted from 1961 until 1965.

Sedki was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister for Industry and Mineral Resources in 1964. Simultaneously, he also became the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in 1964 as well. In November 1970, Sedki was further elevated to Egypt's deputy prime minister for production and trade.

Sedki became Prime Minister of Egypt on January 17, 1972, following the resignation of Mahmoud Fawzi. He remained Prime Minister until March 26, 1973 when he was succeeded as Prime Minister by Anwar Sadat.

Death

Aziz Sedki died at the age of 88 on January 26, 2008, at the Hospital Europeen Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.

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