Salah Abdel Moamen Explained

Office:	Minister of Agriculture and Lands Reclamation
Primeminister:	Hisham Qandil
Successor:	Ahmed Gezawi
Term Start:	2 August 2012
Term End:	7 May 2013
Party:	Independent
Nationality:	Egyptian

Salah Mohammad Abdel Moamen or Momen was the Egypt's minister of agriculture and lands reclamation from 2012 to 2013.

Education

Moamen holds a PhD in plant pathology from the University of Texas.^[1]

Career

Moamen served the president of the institute of plant pathology research and as the vice president of the agriculturalresearch centre.^[1] Then he became the president of the research center.^{[2] [3]} He was appointed minister of agriculture and lands reclamation to the Qandil cabinet in August 2012.^[4] He is one of the independent and non-political appointees in the cabinet.^[5] On 7 May 2013, he was succeeded by Ahmed Gezawi in the post in a cabinet reshuffle.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Egypt's newly appointed cabinet. American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. 8 December 2012.
2. Web site: ARC Board of Directors. Agricultural Research Center. 8 December 2012.
3. News: Enein. Ahmed Aboul. A closer look at Qandil's cabinet. 5 March 2013. Daily News Egypt. 1 August 2012.
4. News: Egypt's new cabinet: Bureaucrats, technocrats and Islamocrats. 8 December 2012. Ahram Online. 2 August 2012.
5. Web site: Egypt's New Cabinet Under Qandil. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 8 December 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131228103339/http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/03/egypts-new-cabinet-under-qandil. 28 December 2013. dmy-all.
6. News: Egypt's Morsi Brings More Islamists into Cabinet. 16 June 2013. Voice of America. 7 May 2013. Reuters.
7. News: Nine new ministers announced in Egypt cabinet reshuffle. 16 June 2013. Ahram Online. 7 May 2013.