Office: | Minister of Finance |
Primeminister: | Hesham Qandil |
President: | Mohamad Morsi |
Term Start: | 7 May 2013 |
Term End: | 16 July 2013 |
Predecessor: | Morsi El Sayed Hegazy |
Successor: | Ahmed Galal |
Party: | Independent |
Fayyad Abdel Moneim (born 1957) is an Egyptian academic and economist who served as finance minister briefly from 7 May to 16 July 2013.
Moneim was born in 1957.[1] He received a bachelor's degree in commerce in 1980.[2] He holds a master's degree, which he received from Al Azhar University in 1993.[2] [3] He also holds a PhD, which he again received from Al Azhar University in Islamic finance in 1999.[2] [4] The title of his PhD thesis is "an evaluation of the economic performance of banks, with application to the Islamic banks in Egypt."[3]
Moneim served as the manager and advisor of the Islamic Research Center at the International Islamic Investment and Development Bank in Cairo.[1] [4] He was also a consultant to various Islamic finance institutions.[4] In addition, he was a financial consultant at Dar El Ifta that is a public institution, issuing fatwas (religious edicts).[1] He served as the legal inspection committee secretary of the Islamic International Bank from 1993 to 2003.[2] He was a member of the board of Islamic studies at the faculty of science at Cairo University.[5] He worked as a professor of economics at Al Azhar University until May 2013.[6] On 7 May 2013, he was appointed finance minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil.[7] He replaced Morsi El Sayed Hegazy in the post.[7] Moneim's term ended on 16 July when interim government led by the Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi was formed.[8]