Hala Helmy el-Said ( ar, هالة حلمي السعيد; born 19 May 1957) is the current Egyptian Minister of Planning and Economic Development.

Early life and career

Hala was born in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

in 1957. She is the first elected dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science from 2011 to 2016 at

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

. She also held the position of Assistant President of Cairo University for Scientific Research Affairs and External Relations from September 2013 to 2016.

Qualifications

Hala holds the following degrees: * Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science from

- in 1989 * Master's degree in economics with excellent grades from the faculty of economics and political sciences from Cairo University - in 1983

References

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