Hazem El Beblawi (also spelled ''el Beblawy''
; ar, حازم عبد العزيز الببلاوى ; born 17 October 1936) is an Egyptian economist and politician who was interim
prime minister of Egypt
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from 2013 until 1 March 2014. Previously he served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in 2011. After the
ouster of President
Mohammed Morsi
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012
Cairo University
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and graduated in 1957.
He obtained a postgraduate degree in economics from the
University of Grenoble
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in France in 1961.
[ He also holds a PhD in economics, which he received from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1964.][
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Career
Beblawi began his career as a lecturer at the University of Alexandria in 1965 and taught economy-related courses at several universities, including the University of Southern California
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, until 1980.[ He became a manager at the ]Industrial Bank of Kuwait The Industrial Bank of Kuwait was established in 1973 in the State of Kuwait by the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Kuwait and other large local industrial firms. Their primary objective is to nourish the local industry. Only 49.11% of the sh ...
in 1980, serving there until 1983.[ From 1983 to 1995, he was chairman and chief executive of the Export Development Bank in Egypt.][ Then he worked at the (ESCWA) as executive secretary from 1995 to 2000.][ Next, he served as an advisor to the Arab Monetary Fund in ]Abu Dhabi
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from 2001 to 2011.[Hazem Al Beblawi]
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After the January–February 2011 Egyptian revolution, Beblawi became a founding member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party
The Egyptian Social Democratic Party ( ar-at, الحزب المصرى الديمقراطى الاجتماعى, al-Ḥizb al-Maṣrī al-Dimuqrāṭī al-Ijtmāʿī, ) is a social liberal and a social democratic party in Egypt. It was founded aft ...
. He was appointed to the government as deputy prime minister for economic affairs, as well as minister of finance, in a cabinet reshuffle
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on 17 July 2011. He succeeded Samir Radwan, who had served as finance minister since January 2011. The cabinet was headed by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf
Essam Abdel-Aziz Sharaf ( ar, عصام عبد العزيز شرف, ; 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.
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After nearly four months in office, Beblawi resigned from office in October 2011 when Coptic Christians were killed by security forces.[ However, his resignation was not accepted by the ruling military council. Beblawi's tenure lasted until December 2011, when he was replaced by Momtaz Saeed as finance minister; Saeed had served as Beblawi's deputy at the Ministry of Finance.
Beblawi was one of the nominees for prime minister after the 2012 presidential election, together with ]Mohamed ElBaradei
Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei ( ar, محمد مصطفى البرادعي, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá al-Barādaʿī, ; born 17 June 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as the vice president of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July ...
and Farouk El Okdah.
Following the removal of President Mohammad Morsi from office by the Egyptian military on 3 July 2013, Beblawi was appointed as interim prime minister on 9 July. He subsequently suspended his membership in the Egyptian Social Democratic Party. His cabinet was sworn in on 16 July 2013.
On 24 February 2014, Prime Minister Beblawi announced the resignation of his cabinet in a press conference.
Activities and views
Beblawi defended the military's crackdown on Morsi supporters after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état as necessary and restrained in August 2013. He proposed the legal dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( '), is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic studies, Islamic scholar and scho ...
on 17 August.
Works
Beblawi is the author of several books mostly about banking, finance, international trade and development. He also writes articles in a column for ''Al Ahram
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''.[ His books include:
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* Hazem Beblawi. (1984). ''The Arab Gulf Economy in a Turbulent Age''. London: Croom Helm.[
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Awards
* Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
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from France in 1992[
* Commander, the order of Leopold II from Belgium in 1992][
* Grand Officier, National Order of the Cedar from Lebanon in 2000][
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20th-century Egyptian economists
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1936 births
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Alexandria University faculty
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Cairo University alumni
Commanders of the Order of Leopold II
Egyptian expatriates in France
Egyptian Social Democratic Party politicians
Finance Ministers of Egypt
Grand Officers of the National Order of the Cedar
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Living people
Politicians from Cairo
People of the Egyptian revolution of 2011
Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
University of Paris alumni