Essam Sharaf
| Essam Sharaf عصام شرف |
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| Prime Minister of Egypt | |
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In office 3 March 2011 – 7 December 2011 |
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| President | Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Ahmed Shafik |
| Succeeded by | Kamal Ganzouri |
| Minister of Transportation | |
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In office 1 June 2004 – 15 December 2005 |
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| Prime Minister | Ahmed Nazif |
| Preceded by | Hamdy El Shayeb |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed Mansour |
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| Born | 1952 Giza, Egypt |
| Political party |
National Democratic Party (Before 2005) Independent (2005–present) |
| Alma mater |
Cairo University Purdue University |
| Religion | Islam |
Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf (Arabic: عصام عبد العزيز شرف, IPA: [ʕeˈsˤɑːm ʕæbdelʕæˈziːz ˈʃɑɾɑf]; born 1952) is an Egyptian academic who was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 3 March 2011 to 7 December 2011. He served as Minister of Transportation from 2004 to 2005.
Sharaf was born in Giza in 1952. After receiving his B.Sc. in civil engineering from Cairo University in 1975, he went to Purdue University where he continued his studies, receiving his M.Sc. Eng in 1980 and his Ph.D. in 1984.
Sharaf took a post as a visiting assistant professor at Purdue in 1984 before becoming assistant professor of highway and traffic engineering at Cairo University the following year. In 1990, he was an assistant professor of civil engineering at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. He returned to Cairo University in 1991, becoming a professor of highway engineering in 1996 while working as senior advisor for the transportation and aviation department in Zuhair Fayez Partnership (ZFP) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Sharaf was the senior advisor to the Egyptian minister of transport in 1999 and the senior technical advisor to the municipality of Al Ain in the UAE in 2003.
He joined the National Democratic Party and became a member of its policy secretariat. He served as Egyptian minister of transportation from 13 July 2004 to 31 December 2005. He resigned due to differences that cropped up between him and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif. Nazif decided to put the Egypt Engineers Association under state control, a move that meant confiscation of union funds and property by the government. Sharaf later claimed that these events led to the Qalyoub rail accident in 2006.
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