Hesham Qandil

Hesham Qandil
هشام قنديل
Qandil in 2013
51st Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
2 August 2012 – 8 July 2013
PresidentMohamed Morsi
DeputyMohamed Kamel Amr
Preceded byKamal Ganzouri
Succeeded byHazem El Beblawi (Acting)
Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation
In office
21 July 2011 – 2 August 2012
Prime MinisterEssam Sharaf
Kamal Ganzouri
Preceded byHussien Ehsan Al-Atfy
Succeeded byMohamed Bahaa Eldin
Personal details
Born
Hesham Mohamed Qandil

(1962-09-17) 17 September 1962 (age 62)
Beni Suef, United Arab Republic
(present-day Egypt)
Political partyIndependent
Alma materCairo University (BS)
Utah State University (MS)
North Carolina State University (PhD)

Hesham Mohamed Qandil (also spelled: Hisham Kandil; Arabic: هشام محمد قنديل  pronounced [heˈʃæːm mæˈħæmmæd ʔænˈdiːl]; born 17 September 1962) is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013.[1] Qandil was appointed as prime minister by President Mohamed Morsi on 24 July 2012 and sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil previously served as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation from 2011 to 2012.[2]

Reuters reported that Qandil was a politically independent senior public servant in the Morsi administration, but was not popularly considered to be a likely candidate for the position of prime minister.[2] Qandil was Egypt's youngest prime minister since Gamal Abdel Nasser's appointment in 1954.[3] When Morsi was overthrown in a coup d'état by the military, Qandil after initially continuing in his role as prime minister until the formation of a new government, resigned from office on 8 July 2013 in protest over the killing of 61 protestors by the military at the Republican Guard headquarters.[4] He was arrested on 24 December 2013[5] and released seven months later on 15 July 2014[6] after he was acquitted by the Court of Cassation, which accepted his appeal and annulled the one-year sentence against him.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Qandil steps down". Daily News Egypt. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b Perry, Tom (24 July 2012). "Egypt's Mursi names little-known water minister as PM". Reuters. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Profile: Egypt Prime Minister Hisham Qandil". BBC. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Egypt PM Qandil addresses resignation to Morsi, slams military coup - the Journal of Turkish Weekly". Archived from the original on 31 May 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Egypt police arrest Morsi-era PM Hisham Qandil". Ahram Online. 24 December 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  6. ^ "Morsi's PM Hisham Qandil released". Ahram Online. 15 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Qandil: Egypt faces difficult challenges and needs justice". Middle East Monitor. 16 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  8. ^ "Egypt court annuls imprisonment of ex-PM Hisham Qandil". Ahram Online. 13 July 2014.