Yehia Hamed Abdel Samea was named on May 7th as Egypt’s new minister of Investment, succeeding Dr. Osama Saleh.
Early Life & Education:
Born in 1978, Abdel Samea graduated from the Faculty of Al-Alsun (Foreign Languages) in 1999.
He has obtained his master’s in Public Administration, from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology. The new minister has also obtained a Sales Diploma from the American University in Cairo (AUC).
Abdel Samea was active in some of community service organizations mainly working on learning youth and micro financing.
Early Career:
Abdel Samea is Advisor for the Egyptian presidency for projects management and governmental co ordination.
He is also a co-founder of the foreign relations committee, of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party Freedom and Justice (FJP).
The new minister has been the official spokesman of Dr. Mohamed Morsi’s presidential campaign in 2012.
From 2010-2012, he has led direct sales unit in Vodafone Egypt. He has also in charge of the management unit in Vodafone Egypt from the period of 2004-2010.
Abdel Samea has also worked as management consultant for many multinational companies in the Middle East.
As the head of project management & government co ordination unit, he supervised many projects, some of them are:
• Subsidy management projects including wheat & fuel distribution
• Support for tourism sector through visa acquiring facilitation
• Supervising the Egypt Air Port City project
• Procurement of setting for governmental purchasing
• Suez Canal new developmental project
