Office: | Minister of Transportation |
Primeminister: | Hesham Qandil |
Predecessor: | Galal Saeed |
Successor: | Hatem Abdel Latif |
Term Start: | 2 August 2012 |
Term End: | 17 November 2012 |
Party: | Independent |
Nationality: | Egyptian |
Mohammad Rashad Al Matini is Egypt's former minister of transportation from 2 August 2012 until his resignation in the aftermath of the Manfalut railway accident on 17 November 2012.
Al Matini worked as a professor of civil engineering at Cairo University.[1] He also served as a consultant at different ministries related to his field of speciality.[2]
He was appointed minister of transportation in the Qandil cabinet on 2 August 2012,[3] replacing Galal Saeed.[4] It was the first governmental post of Al Matini who had no political affiliation.[5] On 17 November 2012, a train crashed with a school bus, killing more than 40 school-age children and injuring others in Assiut governorate. Upon this event, Al Matini submitted his resignation to President Mohammad Morsi.[6] Rashad was replaced by Hatem Abdel Latif on 5 January 2013 in a cabinet reshuffle.[7]