Hesham Qandil
Hescham Mohammed Kandil (Arabic هشام قنديل, DMG Hisham Qandil, born September 17, 1962) is an engineer and former Prime Minister of Egypt.
Studies and career
Kandil has studied at Cairo University and earned a degree in 1984 Bachelor of Engineering. From 1988 to 1993 he studied in the United States and made the 1988 Masters in Water Management at the University of Utah and his doctorate in 1993 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the Ph.D. Agricultural technology and biotechnology. In 1995 he returned to Egypt and is in the civil service at the National Water Research Centre ( NWRC ), the technical department of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Management ( MED) and the Tourism Development Authority ( TDA), works. From 1999 to 2005 was office manager for the minister of water resources. From 2004 to early 2011 he was in Tunis ( Tunisia) head of water resources at the African Development Bank ( AfDB)
Political career
After the revolution in Egypt in 2011 Kandil is appointed to the agreed upon with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Sharaf Cabinet and appointed on 21 July 2011 as the Minister for water resources and irrigation. Following the Government he held from 7 December 2011, from his office in the Second Cabinet El- Ganzuri. On 24 July 2012, he was appointed as a more conservative "independent " of President Mohammed Mursi ( FGP ) in the Office of the Prime Minister and was on August 2, 2012 Prime Minister and his Cabinet stood before Kandil. On January 6, 2013 he undertook a government reshuffle and ten ministerial posts were reassigned.
On 1 July 2013 five Cabinet members resigned (including Mohamed Kamel Amr ) back due to continued mass protests. On 3 July 2013, the seizure of power by the Egyptian military, the Transitional Prime Minister Hasim al - Beblawi began on July 9, 2013 took place.
Process
During his tenure, he was sentenced to one year in prison by a court in April 2012 because he failed to comply with a court ruling from 2011, the " sale of an Egyptian textile company by the government of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak to a Saudi investor " undo to make. It is founded in 1954 Tanta Flax and Oil Company Company. An appeals court upheld on July 3, 2013, the judgment and thus the deposition Kandils as Prime Minister. In September 2013, the Court confirmed the verdict in Cairo. Kandil had previously filed a complaint.
According to the Egyptian Ministry of Interior Hescham Kandil was arrested on December 24, 2013 in Egypt by the Egyptian police on the run in the Sudan.