Mohamed Nasr Eldin Allam ( ar, محمد نصر الدين علام) was appointed as

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

ian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources by President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak on 11 March 2009, replacing Mahmoud Abu Zeid. He was previously Professor of

Irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow Crop, crops, Landscape plant, landscape plants, and Lawn, lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,00 ...

and Drainage Engineering in the Cairo University Faculty of Engineering, and was founder and general manager of Nile Consultants, an engineering consulting firm in

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Qualifications

* B.Sc. (1975) "Civil Engineering" Cairo University (Egypt) * M.Sc. (1980) "Irrigated agricultural expansion planning in developing countries"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, Cambridge (USA) * Ph.D. (1982) "Irrigated agricultural expansion: investment scheduling, income redistribution & resilient system design" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allam, Mohamed Nasr Eldin Year of birth missing (living people) Egyptian engineers Irrigation Ministers of Egypt Living people Academic staff of Cairo University