Mostafa Kamal Madbouly (born 28 April 1966) is an Egyptian politician who serves as the 54th and current
Prime Minister of Egypt
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. He was appointed by President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
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After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and 201 ...
to succeed
Sherif Ismail
Sherif Ismail (, ; 6 July 1955 – 4 February 2023) was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.
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following his government's resignation in the wake of Sisi's re-election. Madbouly also served in
Sherif Ismail
Sherif Ismail (, ; 6 July 1955 – 4 February 2023) was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.
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's cabinet as
Minister of Housing, and had also briefly served as acting prime minister.
Career
Madbouly graduated from
Cairo University
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, receiving a master's degree and PhD from the Faculty of Engineering in 1988 and 1997, respectively.
Housing and Building Research Center
Madbouly started his career at the government's
Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), becoming the director of the Training and Urban Studies Institute there.
General Organisation for Physical Planning
From September 2009 until November 2011, Madbouly was the chairman of the urban planning authority, the
General Organisation for Physical Planning (GOPP) affiliated to the Ministry of Housing.
United Nations Human Settlements Program
From November 2012 until February 2014 he was the regional director for Arab countries at the
United Nations Human Settlements Program.
Minister of Housing
In March 2014 Madbouly was appointed
Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities succeeding
Ibrahim Mahlab
Ibrahim Roshdy Mahlab (, ; born 8 May 1949) is an Egyptian engineer and politician who was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1 March 2014 until 19 September 2015. Previously he served as Minister of Housing.
Career
Mahlab joined the Arab Cont ...
, who became prime minister. Madbouly remained in the post following the appointment of
Sherif Ismail
Sherif Ismail (, ; 6 July 1955 – 4 February 2023) was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015.
Early life ...
as prime minister in September 2015. During his tenure as housing minister, he oversaw the
Social Housing Project (also known as the Million Housing Units project).
As housing minister, Madbouly was also chairman of a number of affiliated organisations including the
New Urban Communities Authority
The New Urban Communities Authority () is an Egyptian state owned enterprise (SOE) established in 1979 and affiliated to the Ministry of Housing. It is the exclusive satellite city developer in Egypt, in addition to being Egypt's largest re ...
(NUCA), Egypt's largest real estate developer and administrator of its
New Cities program. There he oversaw key projects such as the
New Administrative Capital
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.
Acting prime minister
In November 2017, Madbouly was appointed acting prime minister following Sherif Ismail's departure to
Germany
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for medical treatment.
Prime Minister of Egypt

On 7 June 2018,
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Sisi appointed Madbouly as prime minister, succeeding Sherif Ismail who had resigned in the wake of Sisi's re-election in the controversial
presidential election
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. On 9 June, Prime Minister Madbouly reshuffled Egypt's cabinet, replacing eight ministers. It was also reported the same day that the Egyptian Parliament had agreed to his new list of Cabinet Ministers.
On 10 June, it was revealed that eight women would serve in his Cabinet, breaking the previous administration's record number of six.
On 13 June, it was reported that Madbouly had selected 13 to 16 deputy ministers and that Madbouly and his government would be sworn in by Sisi on 14 June. Madbouly and his cabinet were sworn in by Sisi on 14 June. He will also maintain his position as Housing Minister. It was reported that government would issue its policy statement on 23 June, but parliamentary spokesman Salah Hassaballah stated these reports to be incorrect.
On 23 June, Hassaballah stated that while no date was now scheduled to present the policy statement before Parliament, he expected the Madbouly government to present it in the next week but that the government was unable to prepare it in time for the planned date.
On 30 June it was announced that Madbouly would present its policy statement on 3 July, in order to comply with the Constitutional 20-day deadline upon Cabinet formation.
On 3 July 2018, Madbouly officially issued his policy statement to the Egyptian parliament.
In the statement, he declared that 85% of his economic reform programme had been accomplished.
The statement was then sent to a parliament committee chaired by a House deputy speaker, which will afterwards be followed by a vote of confidence.
Article 146 of the constitution stipulates that a newly appointed prime minister must deliver a policy statement before parliament, after which MPs should vote on the policy, in a process that ends within 30 days. On 11 July 2018, First deputy speaker of Egypt's parliament Al-Sayed Al-Sherif, who headed the parliamentary committee tasked with reviewing the Madbouly's policy statement, announced that his committee had completed its review of the statement and recommended a vote of confidence in favor for 15 July. On 25 July 2018, ten days after the intended date, the Egyptian parliament approved both Madbouly's cabinet and his policy statement in a vote of confidence.
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1966 births
Living people
Egyptian Muslims
Egyptian politicians
21st-century prime ministers of Egypt
Cairo University alumni
Housing ministers of Egypt