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 | 30 January 1952 Damanhour, El Behera, Egypt |
| Party | National Democratic Party (Formerly) Independent |
| Children | 3 boys |
Mahmoud Saad Balbaa (born 30 January 1952) is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and former minister of electricity and energy in the Qandil cabinet.
Career
[edit | edit source]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]
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