Egypt’s newly-announced and long-awaited cabinet reshuffle brings Sayed Ismail as the new deputy minister of housing for infrastructure affairs, Invest-Gate reports.
Running as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Ismail has a track record in technical supervision of water and sanitation projects, especially in rural areas. Likewise, he formed a team of experts and technical personnel to set up a monitoring system for infrastructure projects, which contributed to regaining the confidence of the World Bank, Arab funds, and other international parties in projects being implemented by Egypt’s transport ministry, according to a ministerial statement on December 22.
Alongside his team, Ismail collaborated with several civil society organizations to finance multiple sewage developments and set strategic solutions to make water and sewerage services reach more people in rural areas. Meanwhile, the new deputy minister has worked on enhancing decentralization by pushing water and sewage companies to put their investment plans into effect.
Meanwhile, ten new ministers and 11 deputies to the ministers took the constitutional oath, whilst shaking up a number of other ministries. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Finance Minister Mohamed Maait will remain in their current posts, but the former was given the direct oversight of the investment and administrative reform portfolios.
Rania Al-Mashat, formerly the tourism minister, will now head the newly-introduced International Cooperation Ministry as part of the reshuffle. Earlier, this office has been known as the “Investment and International Cooperation Ministry,” headed by Sahar Nasr, who had served as the international cooperation minister since 2015 and also took on the investment portfolio in 2017.
With the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities being merged into one party, Khaled Anany will succeed Al-Mashat as the new tourism minister and also retain his existing role as Minister of Antiquities. In this regard, Ghada Shalaby was appointed as the vice minister of tourism and antiquities.
In the same vein, Hala El Saeed will continue operating as Minister of Planning and will now administer the country’s economic development. Besides, Amr Nassar’s management has been ceased, with Nevine Gamea assigned the new minister of industry and foreign trade.
