Essam El-Haddad
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Essam El-Haddad in 2012
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| Born |
November 14, 1953 Alexandria, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Organization | Muslim Brotherhood |
| Political party | Freedom and Justice Party |
| Spouse(s) | Mona Imam |
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Essam El-Haddad /'Isām al-Haddād/ (Arabic: عصام الحداد) Egyptian born in 1953, was a senior advisor for foreign relations for the Muslim Brotherhood and the Freedom and Justice Party. In August 2012, he was appointed as one of four Egyptian Presidential assistants with responsibility for foreign relations and international cooperation until the overthrow of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in the third of July 2013. He is now in custody in a solitary confinement in Al-Aqrab prison in Cairo.
Essam spent his early life in Alexandria in Egypt. He attended the faculty of medicine in Alexandria University where he earned BA degree. His political involvement began while he was a student when he was elected a president of the student union.
He had his M.B.A. from Aston University, England. He studied for PhD degree in University of Birmingham Medical School where he also worked as a research fellow, in addition to being Head of Egyptian Students’ Society in Birmingham and Head of Islamic Students’ Society in Birmingham University.
In 1984, El-Haddad co-founded Islamic Relief, an international humanitarian organisation working in more than 40 countries providing emergency aid, carrying out long-term development, and campaigning for change. The Islamic Relief international headquarters are based in Digbeth, in Birmingham, UK.
In Egypt, he chaired the Arabian Group For Development (AGD), the company was a member of the Union of Arab Exhibitions, the International Business Forum, the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the British Egyptian Business Association, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He also founded “Inter-Build Egypt,” the country’s largest exhibition for the construction sector
He worked also as a management consultant in SKOPOS Company, one of the leading Management Consulting and Organization Development companies in Middle East based in Dubai, UAE. He is also a member of the Board of Governors (BOG) of the International Business forum (IBF) in Istanbul, and a frequent discussant and participant in Friends of Europe Think Tank (Development Forum) in Brussels.
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