Mahmoud Balbaa

Mahmoud Balbaa
Minister of Electricity and Energy
In office
3 August 2012 – 5 January 2013
Prime MinisterHisham Qandil
Preceded byHassan Younes
Succeeded byAhmed Imam
Personal details
Born (1952-01-30) 30 January 1952 (age 72)
Damanhour, El Behera, Egypt
Political partyNational Democratic Party (Formerly)
Independent
Children3 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

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Ahmed Aboul Enein (8 August 2012). "Qandil's faux independents". Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Egypt's New Cabinet Under Qandil". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  3. ^ "Report: Egypt-Gaza energy deal rests on Palestinian unity". The Jerusalem Post. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Egypt's government: It's time to get to know the ministers". Egypt Business. 5 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  5. ^ "Egypt's new cabinet: Bureaucrats, technocrats and Islamocrats". Ahram Online. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  6. ^ "Meet Hisham Qandil's new Egypt cabinet". Ahram Online. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Egypt's Newly Appointed Cabinet Ministers" (PDF). American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  8. ^ "Egypt's cabinet reshuffle to see new interior, finance ministers". Ahram Online. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Ministerial portfolios". Weekly Ahram. 9 January 2013. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2013.