Ashraf El-Shihy Explained

Ashraf El-Shihy
Office:Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Scientific Research of Egypt
President:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Primeminister:Sherif Ismail
Term Start:19 September 2015
Term End:19 February 2017
Predecessor:El-Sayed Ahmed Abdel Khaled (Minister of Higher Education).

Sherif Aly Mohamed Hammad (Minister of Scientific Research)

Successor:Khaled Abd El Ghafar
Birth Name:Ashraf Mohamed El-Shihy
Birth Date:1955 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Cairo, Egypt
Nationality:Egyptian
Party:Independent
Education:Cairo University (Alma mater)

University of Southampton (Master of Science)

University of Southampton (Doctorate)

Website:www.egy-mhe.gov.eg

Ashraf Mohamed El Shihy (in Egyptian Arabic أشرف محمد عبد الحميد الشيحي), is an Egyptian politician, the Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Scientific Research, under President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the government of Sherif Ismail.[1]

Early life, education, and career

Born in Cairo, Ashraf M. El Shihy graduated in 1977 from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, receiving his bachelor of science in civil engineering. In 1980 he earned a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Southampton, England, the United Kingdom. Then he got his doctorate degree in civil engineering also from the University of Southampton in 1986. He served in multiple prestigious positions in the higher education sector throughout Egypt. He rose in academic positions to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in May 2005, and Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research. In August to 2013, he served as Acting Chairman of the University of Zagazig and Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research. In 22 September 2014, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi adopted a decision to assign El Shihy as the University President (Chancellor) of University of Zagazig, after all the professors at the University refused to stand in front of him in the elections of the presidency of the university. After removing the president of the university and the other two vice presidents as they belonged to the terrorist organization the "Muslim Brotherhood"; El Shihy is famous for working as a vice president for graduate studies and was in charge of the presidency of the university and the other vice presidents making him working the heaviest four jobs in the university alone for over a whole year; making the media and the press describe him as "the Four in One Man" or "4 in 1 Man". On 19 September 2015, Ahsraf El-Shihy was assigned to the Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Scientific Research of Egypt.[2] [3] He is the former President of Egyptian Chinese University "ECU" 2017–2023, and the current President of Badr University in Cairo (BUC).

Minister of Higher Education and the Minister of Scientific Research

Achievements as the Minister of Higher Education and the Minister of Scientific Research

Academic and Practical career

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Current occupation

Notes and References

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  5. News: ننشر السيرة الذاتية لوزير التعليم العالي الجديد الدكتور أشرف الشيحي.. الوزير رقم 31 في تاريخ الوزارة. صدى البلد. 2018-04-02. ar-AR.
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  20. Web site: Prof. Ashraf El-Shihy The Egyptian Chinese University. www.ecu.edu.eg. en-US. 2018-04-08.