Samir El-Sayiad

Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade of Egypt

Samir El-Sayiad

Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade
Incumbent
Assumed office 2011
President	Mohamed Tantawi (Acting)
Prime Minister	Essam Sharaf
Preceded by	Rachid Mohamed Rachid

Personal details
Nationality	Egyptian

Samir El-Sayiad (also Samir Sayad) is the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade for Egypt, serving since 2011.

Career

Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry and former Dean of the Faculty of Science, Helwan University.

The Cultural Counselor and director of the Egyptian Educational Bureau to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

International expert in industrial development and export promotion at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the (UNCTAD) since 1977, in which missions have been accomplished in many countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and India.

Chairman and CEO of one of the largest firms for Chemical Industry.

Member of the Industry branch and the Higher Education Branch of the Supreme Specialized Councils.

Former member of the Industry Research Council, secretary of the Chemical Industry Committee, member of the Marketing Research Committee and head of the Printing and Packaging Committee, at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

Former member of the Supreme Committee for granting the Egyptian Industry excellence awards at the Industrial Modernization Centre.

References

External links

Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade

Political offices
Preceded by Rachid Mohamed Rachid	Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mar, 2011-Jul ,2011	Incumbent

Cabinet of Essam Sharaf

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
Vice Prime Ministers Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Ministry of Civil Aviation Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Ministry of Culture Ministry of Education and Higher Education Ministry of Electricity and Energy Ministry of State for the Environment Affairs Ministry of Finance Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Health and Population Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Governor - Central Bank of Egypt Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority	Yehia El-Gamal (resigned); Ali El Selmi Hazem El Beblawi Ayman Farid Abu-Hadid Zahi Hawass^† Ibrahim Manna Magued Osman Emad Badr El-Din Mahmoud Abu Ghazy Ahmed Gamal Eddin Moussa Hassan Younes Maged George^† Samir Radwan Mohamed Kamel Amr Ashraf Hatem Mohamed Fathy El-Baradei Farouk Abd El Baky El Okdah Ahmed Ali Fadel^†	2011 2011 2011-March 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2004 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 1996	Ministry of Interior Ministry of Justice Ministry of State for Local Development Ministry of Manpower and Migration Ministry of State for Military Production Ministry of Petroleum and Metallurgical Wealth Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Ministry of Scientific Research, Science and Technology Ministry of Social Solidarity and Justice Ministry of Tourism Ministry of Trade and Industry Ministry of Transportation Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Minister without portfolio; GID Chief Permanent Representative to the United Nations	Mansour el-Essawy Mohamed Abdel Aziz Ibrahim El-Gendy Mohsen El-Nomani Mohamed Hafez^† Ahmed Hassan El-Boraei Ahmed Al-Boraei^† Sayed Meshaal Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed Abdel Menim Ghorab^† Faiza Abou el-Naga Abd Alla Al-Husseni Ahmed Helal Amr Ezzat Salama Gouda Abdel Khalek^† Monir Fakhry Abdel Nour Samir El-Sayiad Atef Abdel Hamid Moustafa Hussien Ehsan Al-Atfy Murad Muwafi Maged A. Abdelaziz	2011 2011 2006 2005 2011 1999 2011 2011 2011 2005 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011 2011

^† Remained from previous administration. Below blank line: Granted Cabinet-level rank although not automatically part of the Cabinet.

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Current ministries	Prime Minister Agriculture and Land Reclamation Awqaf Civil Aviation Communications and Information Technology Culture Defence and Military Production Education Electricity and Energy Finance Foreign Affairs Health Housing, Utilities and Urban Development Interior Justice Manpower and Migration Petroleum and Metallurgical Wealth Planning and International Cooperation Scientific Research, Science and Technology Social Solidarity and Justice Tourism Trade and Industry Transportation Water Resources and Irrigation
Ministries of state	Environmental Affairs Local Development Military Production
Ministers of state	Antiquities Affairs