Mostafa Hussein Kamel

Mostafa Hussein Kamel Ahmed Mostafa (born 23 March 1960; ) is an Egyptian politician. He served as the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs from December 2011 to August 2012. He was sworn into Prime Minister Hesham Qandil's cabinet, the Qandil Cabinet, on 2 August 2012, following the 2011–2012 Egyptian revolution that deposed President Hosni Mubarak, retaining his position from former Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri's interim government. He was one of the independent ministers in the cabinet.

Early life and education Mostafa Hussein Kamel is a Professor of Cairo University.

He attended Cairo University, which he graduated from Faculty of Science in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology and in 1989 a PhD in geophysics. In doing so, he replaced Maged George, who had served as the minister since 2004. He was sworn into the cabinet on 2 August 2012.

Nature reserves visit In early August 2012, he paid a visit to certain nature reserves located in the Sinai Peninsula. The purpose of the visit was to listen to workers' demands and complaints regarding the reserves, which would be incorporated into an attempt to change the maintenance of these reserves, with an independent body that is affiliated with Egypt's Environmental Affairs Ministry controlling the reserves. In addition, Kamel stressed the importance of decentralization, and also promised to work and fix the problems that the workers at the reserves voiced.