Mahmoud Balbaa

Mahmoud Balbaa
Minister of Electricity and Energy
In office
3 August 2012  5 January 2013
Prime Minister Hisham Qandil
Preceded by Hassan Younes
Succeeded by Ahmed Imam
Personal details
Born (1952-01-30) 30 January 1952
Damanhour, El Behera, Egypt
Nationality Egyptian
Political party National Democratic Party (Formerly)
Independent
Children 3 boys
Religion Muslim

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 National Democratic Party.[1] An engineer by training,[2] he was appointed head of the Egyptian Electric Holding Company in 2011.[1] Therefore, he was the man in direct charge of the electricity of the country.[1] He stated in February 2012 that Egypt was ready to supply additional power to the Gaza Strip if 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 Enein, Ahmed Aboul (8 August 2012). "Qandil’s faux independents". Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Egypt’s New Cabinet Under Qandil". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  3. "Report: Egypt-Gaza energy deal rests on Palestinian unity". The Jerusalem Post. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Egypt's government: It's time to get to know the ministers". Egypt Business. 5 August 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  5. "Egypt's new cabinet: Bureaucrats, technocrats and Islamocrats". Ahram Online. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  6. "Meet Hisham Qandil's new Egypt cabinet". Ahram Online. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  7. "Egypt's Newly Appointed Cabinet Ministers" (PDF). American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  8. "Egypt's cabinet reshuffle to see new interior, finance ministers". Ahram Online. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  9. "Ministerial portfolios". Weekly Ahram. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
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