Mahmoud Balbaa
Mahmoud Balbaa | |
|---|---|
Hisham Qandil | |
| Preceded by | Hassan Younes |
| Succeeded by | Ahmed Imam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 January 1952 Damanhour, El Behera, Egypt |
| Political party | National Democratic Party (Formerly) Independent |
| Children | 3 boys |
Mahmoud Saad Balbaa (born 30 January 1952) is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and former minister of electricity and energy in the Qandil cabinet.
Career
Balbaa was a member of the now disbanded
the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas would sign off on the deal.[3] He also worked closely with the former minister of electricity and energy Hassan Younes to realize Banha's electricity generation projects, which would be provided and installed by a coalition of Japanese companies, such as Hitachi and Toyota.[4]
He was appointed the Egypt's minister of electricity and energy in August 2012,[5][6] replacing Hassan Younes.[4] He was one of the senior figures in Egyptian holding companies and independent figures appointed to the ministerial post in the cabinet.[2][1][7] Balbaa was replaced by Ahmed Imam in a cabinet reshuffle on 5 January 2012.[8][9]
References
- ^ a b c d Ahmed Aboul Enein (8 August 2012). "Qandil's faux independents". Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Egypt's New Cabinet Under Qandil". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ "Report: Egypt-Gaza energy deal rests on Palestinian unity". The Jerusalem Post. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Egypt's government: It's time to get to know the ministers". Egypt Business. 5 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
- ^ "Egypt's new cabinet: Bureaucrats, technocrats and Islamocrats". Ahram Online. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ "Meet Hisham Qandil's new Egypt cabinet". Ahram Online. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ "Egypt's Newly Appointed Cabinet Ministers" (PDF). American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
- ^ "Egypt's cabinet reshuffle to see new interior, finance ministers". Ahram Online. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ "Ministerial portfolios". Weekly Ahram. 9 January 2013. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2013.