Nadia Makram Ebeid () is an

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academic who served as the minister of state for environment being the first Egyptian woman who served in the post.

Biography

Ebeid is from a Coptic family originally based in

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where her uncle was the politician

Makram Ebeid Makram Ebeid Pasha (; 25 October 1889 – 5 June 1961) was an Egyptian politician. Ebeid was the Wafd Party secretary-general between 1936 and 1942. He was also the Minister of Finance 1930, 1936–1937, 1942. Ebeid helped establish the Wafd Part ...

. Her cousin is Mona Makram-Ebeid. Ebeid received a master of arts degree from

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in 1977. She was appointed minister of environment in July 1997 in a reshuffle of the cabinet led by

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Kamal Ganzouri. The office was newly established, and Ebeid became the first environment minister of Egypt. She remained to serve in the office until 2002. When she was in office, she also served as the vice-chair of the executive bureau of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) and of the board of trustees of the Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE). Between 2002 and 2003 she was the first special peace envoy of the

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to Sudan. She was a visiting professor at

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, USA. As of 2016 she was the executive director of CEDARE.

References

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