Aziz Sedky

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Aziz Sedky
عزيز صدقي
Sedky in 1972
36th Prime Minister of Egypt
In office 16 January 1972 – 26 March 1973
President	Anwar Sadat
Preceded by	Mahmoud Fawzi
Succeeded by	Anwar Sadat
Personal details
Born	1 July 1920 Cairo, Egypt
Died	25 January 2008 (aged 87) Paris, France
Political party	Arab Socialist Union
Spouse	Leila Sioufi

Aziz Sedky (Arabic: عزيز صدقي, IPA: [ʕæˈziːz ˈsedʔi]; 1 July 1920 – 25 January 2008) was an Egyptian politician and engineer.^[1] Sedky served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 16 January 1972 until 26 March 1973. He was nicknamed the "father of Egyptian industry."^[1]

Aziz Sedky was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 1 July 1920.^[1] He graduated with a degree in engineering from Cairo University in 1944.^[1] He went on to earn a doctorate in economic planning from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1]

Sedky was appointed as a technical adviser to the Egyptian prime minister's office in 1955, a few years after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.^[1] He next served as a full-time member of the services board until 1956.^[1]

In 1956, Sedky was appointed as minister of industry by the President Gamal Abdel Nasser.^[1] Among Sedky's tasks as minister was the supervision of an industrialization program, which was financed by the Soviet Union.^[1] The Soviets were, at the time, an important ally of the Egpytian government. Sedky launched a five-year industrialization plan in 1957.^[1] This initiative was later merged into a "general five-year development plan", which lasted from 1961 until 1965.^[1] He was a member of the Arab Socialist Union from 1962 and became part of its secret unit, the Socialist Vanguard (Arabic: al-Tanzim al-Tali‘i), which was also called the Vanguard Organization, in 1963 when the unit was established.^[2]

Sedky was promoted as deputy prime minister responsible for industry and mineral resources in 1964.^[1] Simultaneously, he also became the minister of petroleum and mineral resources in 1964 as well.^[1] In November 1970, Sedky was also named as the deputy prime minister for production and trade.^[1]

Sedky was appointed prime minister on 16 January 1972, following the resignation of Mahmoud Fawzi.^[1] He remained in office until 26 March 1973 when he was replaced by Anwar Sadat in the post.^[1]

Aziz Sedky died at the age of 87 on 25 January 2008, at the Hospital Europeen Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.^[1]

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