Ahmed Abdel Wahab Pasha

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Ahmed Abdel Wahab Pasha (1889–1938) was an Egyptian statesman who served as minister of finance from 1934 to 1936. He was born in 1889 in Bani Muhammad Al Shihabiyya, Asyut, and studied in Cairo and London before working as a lecturer at the Higher School of Commerce in Cairo. He earned the title Bey and led a group of young Egyptian technocrats called the Thirty Club. In 1929 he became undersecretary of state at the finance ministry, and in 1930 he was made a Pasha. He took part in Egypt’s World Economic Conference in London in 1933.

On 15 November 1934 he was appointed minister of finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha, replacing Hassan Sabry Pasha. His first term ended when the cabinet resigned on 22 January 1936. In mid-January 1936 he became vice chairman of the Anglo-Egyptian Union. He returned as finance minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha, formed on 31 January 1936, and stayed in office until the cabinet resigned in May 1936. He was succeeded by Makram Ebeid. In March 1937 he joined the board of the National Bank of Egypt. He died of pneumonitis on 16 April 1938 in Cairo at age 49.