Office: | Minister of Finance |
Primeminister: | Mustafa El Nahas |
Term Start: | May 1942 |
Term End: | 2 June 1943 |
Predecessor: | Makram Ebeid |
Successor: | Amin Osman |
Birth Date: | March 1885 |
Party: | Wafd Party |
Kamel Sidky (Arabic: كامل صدقي; 1885–1946) was an Egyptian lawyer. He was the minister of finance between 1942 and 1943.
Sidky hailed from a Coptic family.[1] He was born in March 1885.[2]
Sidky was a long-term vice president of the Egyptian National Bar. He was named as the head of the Bar in 1936.[2] He was also a long-term member of the Coptic Community Council where he served until 1942. He was made a senator and was part of the Egyptian delegations in the International Parliamentary Congresses held in 1928 and in 1930.[3]
Sidky joined the Wafd Party on 2 December 1932.[3] He was made the vice president of the Egyptian Parliament in 1934.[3] He was appointed minister of commerce and industry in February 1942 to the cabinet led by Mostafa El Nahas.[3] Sidky was also named as the minister of finance in May 1942 when Makram Ebeid was removed from office.[3] On the same date Sidky was awarded with the title Pasha.[3] His both ministerial tenures ended in June 1943.[3] Then he was appointed president of the State Audit on 2 June 1943.[2] His succeeded Amin Osman in the post who in turn, succeeded Sidky as minister of finance.[2] Sidky headed the State Audit until his retirement on 1 March 1945.[2]
Sidky died in 1946.[2]