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Hesham Qandil

Hesham Qandil
هشام قنديل
Hesham Mohamed Qandil World Economic Forum 2013 crop.jpg
Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
24 July 2012 – 8 July 2013
President Mohamed Morsi
Deputy Mohamed Kamel Amr
Preceded by Kamal Ganzouri
Succeeded by Hazem Al Beblawi (Acting)
Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation
In office
21 July 2011 – 23 July 2012
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf
Kamal Ganzouri
Preceded by Hussien Ehsan Al-Atfy
Succeeded by Mohamed Bahaa Eldin
Personal details
Born Hesham Mohamed Qandil
(1962-09-17) 17 September 1962 (age 54)
Beni Suef, Egypt
Political party Independent
Alma mater Cairo University
Utah State University
North Carolina State University
Religion Islam

Hesham Mohamed Qandil (also spelled: Hisham Kandil ; Arabic: هشام محمد قنديل‎‎  pronounced [heˈʃæːm mæˈħæmmæd ʔænˈdiːl]) (born 17 September 1962) is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013. Qandil was appointed as Prime Minister by President Mohamed Morsi on 24 July 2012. Qandil previously served as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation from 2011 to 2012.

Reuters reported that Qandil was a politically independent senior public servant in the Morsi administration, but was not popularly considered to be a likely candidate for the position of prime minister. Qandil was Egypt's youngest prime minister since Gamal Abdel Nasser's appointment in 1954. When Morsi was ousted in a coup d'état by the military in July 2013, Qandil after initially continuing in his role as prime minister until the formation of a new government, resigned his post on 8 July 2013 in protest of the subsequent bloodshed when 51 protesters were killed by the military at the Republican Guard headquarters. He was arrested on 24 December 2013 and released seven months later on 15 July 2014 after he was acquitted by the Court of Cassation, which accepted his appeal and annulled the one-year sentence against him.

Qandil was born in 1962. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering, which he obtained from Cairo University in 1984. Then he received a master's degree in irrigation and drainage engineering from Utah State University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in biological and agricultural engineering with a minor in water resources from North Carolina State University in 1993.


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