Hisham Kandil

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Kandil during the WEF 2013

Hischam Mohammed Kandil (also Hescham Kandil ; Arabic هشام قنديل, DMG Hišām Qandīl ; Born September 17, 1962 ) is an engineer and former Prime Minister of Egypt .

Study and job

Kandil studied at the University of Cairo and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1984 . From 1988 to 1993 he studied in the United States and made the 1988 Masters in water management at the University of Utah and a doctorate in 1993 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Ph.D. Agricultural engineering and biotechnology. In 1995 he returned to Egypt and served in the civil service at the National Water Research Center (NWRC), the technical department of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Management (MED) and the Tourism Development Authority (TDA). From 1999 to 2005 he was office manager for the Minister of Water Resources. From 2004 to the beginning of 2011 he was Head of Water Resources in Tunis (Tunisia) at the African Development Bank (AfDB).

Political career

After the revolution in Egypt in 2011 , Kandil was appointed to the Sharaf cabinet, which was coordinated with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , and was appointed Minister of Water and Irrigation on July 21, 2011. After the government reshuffle , he also retained his office in the El-Ganzuri Second Cabinet from December 7, 2011 . On July 24, 2012, he was appointed to the office of Prime Minister by President Mohammed Morsi ( FGP ) as a rather conservative “independent” and on August 2, 2012, he became Prime Minister and headed his Kandil cabinet . On January 6, 2013, he reshuffled the government and ten new ministerial posts were given.

On July 1, 2013, five cabinet members (including Mohamed Kamel Amr ) resigned due to ongoing mass protests. On July 3, 2013, the Egyptian military came to power , which installed the interim Prime Minister Hasim al-Beblawi on July 9, 2013 .

process

While he was still in office, Kandil was sentenced to one year in prison by a court in April 2012 for failing to comply with a court ruling from 2011 to reverse the "sale of an Egyptian textile company by the government of long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak to a Saudi investor" do. This is the company Tanta Flachs and Oil Company, founded in 1954 . On July 3, 2013, an appeals court upheld the verdict and thus also the removal of Kandil as Prime Minister. In September 2013, the Court of Cassation in Cairo upheld the judgment. Kandil had previously filed a complaint. He was arrested on December 24, 2013; According to the Egyptian Interior Ministry, he tried to flee to Sudan . In July 2014, the sentence was overturned and Kandil was released from prison.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Profile: Egypt Prime Minister Hisham Qandil" , BBC , August 3, 2012.
  2. ^ Egypt: Mursi appoints head of government at sueddeutsche.de, July 24, 2012 (accessed July 25, 2012).
  3. ↑ Prime Minister is supposed to form Egypt's cabinet . In: Welt online , July 24, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2012. 
  4. ^ Morsi appoints new Egyptian head of government . In: Deutsche Welle , July 24, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2012. 
  5. ↑ tagesschau.de: Egypt's ex-prime minister arrested ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ AFP / cbo: Egypt: Police arrest ex-Prime Minister Kandil. In: welt.de . December 25, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ "Egyptian police take action against the Muslim Brotherhood" , Die Zeit , December 25, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Morsi's PM Hisham Qandil released" , Al Ahram , July 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kandil, Hisham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kandil, Hisham Mohammed; Kandil, Hescham; Qandil, Hisham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1962