Ahmed Galal | |
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Minister of Finance | |
In office 16 July 2013 – 1 March 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Hazem Al Beblawi |
Preceded by | Fayyad Abdel Moneim |
Succeeded by | Hani Qadri Demian |
Personal details | |
Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
Nationality | Egyptian |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | |
Profession | Economist |
Ahmed Galal (born 1948) is an Egyptian economist and politician, who was appointed minister of finance in the interim government headed by Hazem Al Beblawi on 16 July 2013. [1]
Galal was born in 1948. [2] He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Cairo University in 1973. [3] Next he obtained a master's degree in economics from the American University in Cairo in 1984. [3] He also holds a PhD in economics, which he received from Boston University in 1986. [3]
Galal began his career at World Bank in 1984 where he worked for eighteen years. [3] He was the executive director and director of research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) for two terms (1996–1997 and 2000–2006). [3] In 2007 he was appointed member of the international board of governors of the International Development Research Center in Canada. [3] He is the president of Forum Euroméditerranéen des Instituts de Sciences Économiques (FEMISE) in France and the founding co-chairman of the board of the MENA Health Policy Forum in Jordan. [3]
He has been the managing director of the Economic Research Forum (ERF), a Cairo-based non-governmental research institution on the Middle East, since 2007. [4] He involved in the economic development initiative started by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil in December 2012. [4] Galal, an independent politician, was appointed finance minister on 16 July 2013 to the interim government led by Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi. [5] [6]
His tenure ended in March 2014. [7] He has been working as an external expert at the Policy Center for the New South. [7]
Galal has been author of various publications on economy and finance. [2]