Mostafa Hussein Kamel
Mostafa Hussein Kamel Ahmed Mostafa (Mostafa Kamel), born March 23, 1960, in Beni Suef, Egypt, is an Egyptian geophysicist and professor who entered politics. He studied at Cairo University, earning a BSc in geology in 1981 and a PhD in geophysics in 1989. He led Cairo University’s Centre for Combating Environmental Hazards and the Basel Regional Center for Training and Technology Transfer in 2010–2011, and he was the head of the Geophysics Department from 2003 to 2011.
He served as Minister of State for Environmental Affairs from December 2011 to August 2012 in the Kamal Ganzouri interim government, and then continued in the same role in Hesham Qandil’s cabinet from August 2, 2012, to January 5, 2013. He was an independent minister. Some environmentalists questioned his appointment, with debates about the ministry’s effectiveness.
In August 2012, he visited nature reserves in the Sinai to hear workers’ concerns and pledged to improve maintenance, push for decentralization, and have oversight by an independent body linked to the Environmental Affairs Ministry. He was replaced by Khaled Abdel Aal in January 2013.
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