Ahmed Nazif served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 14 July 2004 to 29 January 2011, when his cabinet was dismissed by President Hosni Mubarak in light of a popular uprising that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
10 Facts About Ahmed Nazif
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Nazif was Acting President of Egypt from 5 March to 15 April 2010, when President Mubarak delegated his authorities to Nazif while undergoing surgery in Germany.
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Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif was sworn in together with fourteen new cabinet ministers on 14 July 2004.
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Ahmed Nazif received immediate parliamentary backing through a formal vote of confidence.
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Ahmed Nazif was the youngest serving prime minister of Egypt since the founding of the Republic and the second youngest prime minister in the history of modern Egypt.
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Ahmed Nazif's cabinet was known to be mainly composed of technocrats and well educated neo-liberals.
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Ahmed Nazif had served as the Minister for Communications and Information Technology in the Obeid Government.
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Ahmed Nazif was taken into custody on April 10,2011, following the Egyptian revolution of 2011 that incarcerated all of the governing elite, on allegations of wasting public money, corruption and allowing others to profit, pending a court trial.
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Ahmed Nazif is credited with helping to found the first computer engineering department in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, leading the National Identity Card project and computerizing it, and establishing the Smart Village.
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Ahmed Nazif has received Egypt's First Degree Medal of Sciences and Art.