Mohamed Nasr Eldin Allam () was appointed as

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ian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources by President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak on 11 March 2009, replacing Mahmoud Abu Zeid. He was previously Professor of

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and Drainage Engineering in the

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Faculty of Engineering, and was founder and general manager of Nile Consultants, an engineering consulting firm in

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Qualifications

* B.Sc. (1975) "Civil Engineering" Cairo University (Egypt) * M.Sc. (1980) "Irrigated agricultural expansion planning in developing countries"

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, Cambridge (USA) * Ph.D. (1982) "Irrigated agricultural expansion: investment scheduling, income redistribution & resilient system design" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Allam, Mohamed Nasr Eldin Year of birth missing (living people) Egyptian engineers Irrigation ministers of Egypt Living people Academic staff of Cairo University Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Cairo University alumni