Hossam Badrawi
| Hossam Badrawi | |
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| Secretary-General of the National Democratic Party | |
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In office 5 February 2011 – 11 February 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Safwat al-Sherif |
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| Born | 1953 Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Political party | Union Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Egypt Revival Party National Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Cairo University |
| Profession | Physician, Professor |
| Website | www |
Hossam Badrawi (Arabic: حسام بدراوى) is an Egyptian physician and politician, who strives to promote innovation and creativity among the engagement of both the teachers and the students. Badrawi owns the well-known Nile Badrawi Hospital in Cairo’s Maadi district. He is also the founder of the Union Party.
Hossam Badrawi graduated from Cairo University Kasr ElAini, faculty of medicine with an honours degree in 1974. He went to Wayne State University-Detroit-Michigan between 1979 and 1983, where he obtained his graduate studies in the use of scanning electron microscopy. Badrawi then completed his post graduate studies at North Western University, and fulfilled graduate studies in Curricula and study programs’ methodologies and development. In 2007, Prof. Badrawi obtained his PhD in science from Sunderland University in the United Kingdom, for outstanding work in higher education reform in the Middle East region.
Published 120 research papers that had to do with his field: obstetrics and gynecology, and participated in eight text books that are related to his field, as well. His latest book about reforming the Education was published in November 2011.
Badrawi came from a family that affiliated with Egypt’s liberal Al-Wafd party. He entered the political life himself in the second half of the 1990s. In 2000, he joined the National Democratic Party with ex-president Hosni Mubarak, who was ruling the party, alongside with his son, Gamal Mubarak.
Badrawi won a seat in the assembly that he occupied before for five years, in which he headed the parliamentary committee on fields like the education and the scientific research. Within the party and in the parliament itself, Badrawi established several initiatives on education that strived to improve the educational system in Egypt. Badrawi started an extensive reform program for all the high school and the university levels, in which policy papers on education-related issues were made.
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