Nadia Makram Ebeid ( ar, نادية مكرم عبيد) is an

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academic who served as the minister of state for environment being the first Egyptian woman who served in the post.

Biography

Ebeid is from a

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family originally based in

Qena Qena ( ar, قنا ' , locally: ; cop, ⲕⲱⲛⲏ ''Konē'') is a city in Upper Egypt, and the capital of the Qena Governorate. Situated on the east bank of the Nile, it was known in antiquity as Kaine (Greek Καινή, meaning "new (city)"; ...

where her uncle was the politician

Makram Ebeid Makram Ebeid Pasha ( ar, مكرم عبيد باشا; 25 October 1889 – 5 June 1961) was an Egyptian Coptic politician. Ebeid was the Wafd Party secretary-general between 1936 and 1942. He was also the Minister of Finance 1930, 1936–1937, 1942 ...

. Her cousin is

Mona Makram-Ebeid Mona Makram-Ebeid ( ar, منى مكرم عبيد; born 20 March 1943 in Qena) is an Egyptian politician and academic, Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the American University of Cairo.The International Who's Who of Women, 3r ...

. Ebeid received a master of arts degree from

American University of Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...

in 1977. She was appointed minister of environment in July 1997 in a reshuffle of the cabinet led by

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Kamal Ganzouri. The office was newly established, and Ebeid became the first environment minister of Egypt. She remained to serve in the office until 2002. When she was in office, she also served as the vice-chair of the executive bureau of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) and of the board of trustees of the Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE). Between 2002 and 2003 she was the first special peace envoy of the

Arab League The Arab League ( ar, الجامعة العربية, ' ), formally the League of Arab States ( ar, جامعة الدول العربية, '), is a regional organization in the Arab world, which is located in Northern Africa, Western Africa, E ...

to Sudan. She was a visiting professor at

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, USA. As of 2016 she was the executive director of CEDARE.

References

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