Abdel Qawi Khalifa

Abdel Qawi Khalifa is an Egyptian engineer, academic, former governor of the Cairo province and former minister of water and wastewater utilities, a ministerial office established in August 2012.

Education Khalifa holds bachelor of science and master of science degrees in civil engineering both from Ain Shams University in Cairo. He also received a master of science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He has a long experience in the fields related to water projects management and civil engineering. He served as a consultant for the hydraulics and sediment research institute at the Egyptian ministry of public works and water resources from 1988 to 1990. He was the first Cairo governor to be appointed after the Egyptian Revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011.

Khalifa was appointed minister of utilities, drinking water and sewage in August 2012 as part of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, and was an independent minister.