Ahmed Nazif

Ahmad Nazif (Arabic: أحمد نظيف, DMG Ahmad Nazif, born July 8, 1952 in Alexandria ) was from 14 July 2004 to January 29, 2011 Prime Minister of Egypt. He is the youngest prime minister in the history of Egypt since the foundation of the Republic and the second youngest in the history of modern Egypt. His name means clean in Arabic.

Nazif has a PhD from McGill University (Canada ) in computer science.

It is the successor of Atef Ebeid, who resigned at a special cabinet meeting after four years in office. Nazif was in this Cabinet Minister for Communications and Information Technology. During his tenure as Minister of the population's access to the Internet has been greatly improved by various measures of the government.

Hosni Mubarak put him on 9 July 2004, the task of forming the new cabinet Nazif. Nazif was sworn in along with the 14 ministers of his government on July 14. He settled after a vote of confidence of Parliament. His first official act in September 2004 was the reduction of import tariffs to comply with requirements of the WTO.

In January 2005, he supported the candidacy of the son of Hosni Mubarak, Gamal Mubarak, for the presidential elections in September, which has been controversial.

In the context of the revolution in Egypt in 2011, he resigned his office. Habib al - Adli, who worked as Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Nazif has, can be ordered at a price of 24.8 million euros in 2007 at the Uch AG, motor vehicle registration. With reference to the terror April 24, 2006 in Dahab tense security situation remained under a tender procedure. Essam El- Batawy, the defender Habib al - Adli from, indicated a responsibility of the Ministry of Finance in the award. Youssef Boutros Ghali As a result, and Ahmad Nazif was accused by the prosecution waste of public funds and put Ahmad Nazif late March / early April 2011 for 15 days in detention. On September 13, 2012, he was sentenced to a prison term of three years and a fine of nine million pounds for unjust enrichment.