Aziz Sidqi
| Aziz Sedky | |
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| 36th Prime Minister of Egypt | |
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In office 17 January 1972 – 26 March 1973 |
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| President | Anwar Sadat |
| Preceded by | Mahmoud Fawzi |
| Succeeded by | Anwar Sadat |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 July 1920 Cairo, Egypt
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| Died | 25 January 2008 (aged 87) Paris, France
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| Political party | Arab Socialist Union |
| Spouse(s) | Leila Sioufi |
| Religion | Muslim |
Aziz Sedky (Arabic: عزيز صدقي, IPA: [ʕæˈziːz ˈsedʔi]; 1 July 1920 – 25 January 2008) was an Egyptian politician and engineer. Sedky served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 17 January 1972 until 26 March 1973. He was nicknamed the "father of Egyptian industry."
Aziz Sedky was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 1 July 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
Sedky 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, Sedky was appointed as Egypt's Minister of Industry by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Among Sedky'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. Sedky 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.
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