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President Morsy appoints Hesham Qandil prime minister
Published in Daily News Egypt on 24 - 07 - 2012

Screengrab from an interview with Hesham Qandil in 9 August 2011 aired on Al-Jazeera Mubasher
President Mohamed Morsy has named Hesham Qandil, the irrigation and water resources minister in the Ganzouri cabinet, as his new prime minister, state news agency MENA reported. Morsy has tasked Qandil with forming a new cabinet.
Qandil was reportedly in a meeting of the Supreme Committee of Nile Water with outgoing Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri when the announcement was made.
Qandil will be replacing El-Ganzouri who resigned following Morsy's election but was tasked with leading his cabinet in a caretaker capacity until a new premier was appointed.
Morsy promised to appoint an independent figure that would gain the approval of all political forces. There had been a debate on whether he should appoint a politician or an apolitical technocrat. Qandil falls in the latter category.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera Mubasher in August of 2011, Qandil said he was not “affiliated to any Islamist parties." He also told the interviewer that he grows his beard because he abides by the “Prophet Muhammad's Sunna."
Qandil was first appointed as Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources in former Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's second cabinet in July 2011. El-Ganzouri chose to retain his services after he replaced Sharaf in December.
He met with Morsy on Sunday in the presidential palace as part of the negotiations regarding naming the new prime minister.
Not much is known about Qandil, 51, except that he has worked in the Ministry under the Mubarak-era Minister of irrigation. He received his Masters degree from the University of Utah and PhD from the University of North Carolina.
Qandil has been on the frontlines of Egypt's negotiations with several African nations regarding the Nile Basin Water Treaty and the development of equitable distribution for the countries that straddle the Nile River. He has worked on several water development projects in Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, and Ethiopia. Qandil similarly served as chief economist for the Bank of Africa Water Resources.


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