Mohamed Kamel Amr
| Mohamed Kamel Amr | |
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| Foreign Minister of Egypt | |
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In office 18 July 2011 – 16 July 2013 |
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| President |
Mohammed Morsi Adly Mansour (acting) |
| Prime Minister |
Essam Sharaf Kamal Ganzouri Hesham Qandil Hazem Al Beblawi |
| Preceded by | Mohamed Orabi |
| Succeeded by | Nabil Fahmy |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 December 1942 Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
Mohamed Kamel Amr (Arabic: محمد کامل عمرو, born 1 December 1942) is an Egyptian diplomat who served as Egypt's minister of foreign affairs from 2011 to 2013. He resigned from office on 30 June 2013.
Amr began his career as a diplomat in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from University of Alexandria with a degree in Economics and Political Science. His first posting abroad was at the Egyptian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This was followed by postings to Egyptian Embassies to the United Kingdom, The People's Republic of China and Australia. Between 1982 – 1987 he was appointed as counsellor in the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations in New York during which period he served as Egypt’s representative on the Security Council when Egypt was a non-permanent Member on the council between 1984 – 1985. In this capacity, he chaired the Security Council commission established by Security Council Resolution no. 571 to investigate South Africa’s attacks on Angola.
From 1989 to 1993 Amr was appointed as a Political Minister of the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
In between postings abroad while he was at the Headquarters of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in Cairo Amr served on the cabinets of several Foreign Ministers including Mahmoud Riyad, Mohamed Riyad, Boutros Boutros Ghali and Esmat Abdel- Meguid. He also was appointed as an Assistant Foreign Minister for African Organizations from January 1993 to September 1995. He was appointed as Egypt’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and representative of Egypt to the Organization of Islamic Conference from September 1995 to December 1997.
From December 1997 to January 2009 Amr was appointed Alternate Executive Director, representing Egypt and 13 Arab Countries on the Executive Board of Directors of the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
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