Youssef Boutros Ghali
Youssef Boutros Ghali ( Egyptian Arabic يوسف بطرس غالى, DMG Yūsuf Butrus Gali, born August 20, 1952 in Cairo ) is a former Egyptian politician of the National Democratic Party of Egypt.
Life
Youssef Boutros Ghali is a nephew of Boutros Boutros -Ghali Boutros Ghali and grandson of. It was founded in 1974 Bachelor of Arts at Cairo University in 1981 and his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the topic rescheduling of Doctor of Economics.
From 1981 to 1986 he was employed by the IMF with the Latin American debt crisis. From 1986 he taught at Cairo University and the American University in Cairo.
1987 and 1991 he was involved in debt rescheduling agreements with the IMF and the Paris Club.
1986 to 1993, he advised Prime Minister Atif Muhammad Naguib Sidqi and the head of the Central Bank of Egypt on economic issues. In 1993 he joined then ( officially ) as Minister for International Cooperation in the Cabinet of Sidqi. A post he held until 1996. In on 11 January 1996, appointed by Mubarak Cabinet Boutros Ghali Ganzuri headed the Ministry of Economic Affairs (from 1997 the Ministry of Economy and Foreign Trade ). A post he held - even in the Cabinet Abaid ( 10/1999 - 07/ 2004) - by the year 2004 in the following Cabinet on Abaid Nazif (07 /2004 - 01/ 2011). Boutros Ghali took over the Ministry of Finance. A post he held until January 29, 2011 as the Cabinet Nazif by the revolutionary events in Egypt and resigned from the Cabinet Shafiq (01 /2011 - 03/ 2011) has been replaced. Only since 2000, he was elected Member of Parliament (East Cairo District of Shobra ).
Youssef Boutros Ghali spoke in 2003 against state intervention to stabilize the exchange rate of the Egyptian pound. As finance minister, he concentrated himself. On deficit reduction, customs and tax reform and privatization of public banks
Boutros Ghali advocated the reduction of trade barriers, participated in the ministerial meeting in Seattle, Doha, Cancun World Trade Organization and was instrumental in the course of the Doha Round. In 1998 he contributed to the completion of the Euro -Mediterranean partnership between Egypt and the European Union and the en: Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, a bilateral free trade agreement between the U.S. and Egypt, at. In 2004, he led the negotiations for the en: Qualifying Industrial Zone Protocol between the Egyptian, Israeli and U.S. government.
From October 2008 to February 4, 2011 Boutros Ghali sat the International Monetary and Financial Committee before.
Conviction for corruption
4 June 2011 Boutros -Ghali was (more than 8 million euros ) in damages and penalty sentenced in absentia for abuse of office and embezzlement of public funds to 30 years in prison and 70 million Egyptian pounds. 15 years imprisonment imposed on him because he had luxury cars, which had been seized by customs, appropriated and used for private purposes, or passed on to other people. Another 15 years because he 2010 Computer and printer of the Treasury was transported in his election office in the Parliament election campaign, to customize with this material then for your own campaign. Youssef Boutros Ghali is currently (June 2011) by Interpol wanted. Shortly before Mubarak resigned under the pressure of mass protests on 11 February 2011, he sat from abroad. According to media reports, he is said to have last been in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Private
Boutros Ghali is married and has a son.