Hazem EL Beblawi

 

    A.     Bio Data:

 

 

Name                  :                  Hazem EL Beblawi

 

Date of Birth     :                 17 October 1936

 

Nationality        :                  Egyptian

 

Address             :                 (Home) 117 Al Thawra St. Heliopolis

                                              Cairo, Egypt

 

                                               (Office) Arab Monetary Fund

                                               P.O. Box: 2818 Abu Dhabi – U.A.E

 

Mobile                :                 971 50 6621095

 

Social Status    :                 Married

 

 

 

B.     Summary & Highlights:

 

 

·               Academic Experience - Teaching at:

 

Egypt

 

-     1964 – 1983          Alexandria University

-     1974 – 1975          Cairo University         

-     1972 – 1974          Ein Shams University         

-     1972 – 1974          American University at Cairo         

 

France

 

-     1968          Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

 

Kuwait

 

-     1968 - 1971          University of Kuwait

 

U.S.A

 

-     1979          UCLA - Los Angeles

 

·            Finance and Banking Experience – Working at:

 

-     Export Development Bank of Egypt, Egypt

-     Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development, Kuwait.

-     Industrial Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait.

-     Arab Monetary Fund, UAE.

-     United Nations

 

 

 

C.    Education:

 

 

 

·            Studied at:

 

-     1957 LLB (honors) Faculty of Law, Cairo University

 

-     1958 Diplome des Etudes Superieures, Political Economy, Cairo University.

 

-     1959 Diplome des Etudes Superieures, Public Law. Cairo University.

 

-     1961 Diplome des Etudes Superieures, Sciences Economiques. University of Grenoble – France.

 

-     1964         Doctorat d’Etat (Ph D), University of Paris

 

 

 

D.    Employment:

 

 

·            Worked as:

 

-     2001 – to date          Advisor - Arab Monetary Fund

 

-     1995 – 2000 Under Secretary General, Executive Secretary - UN -Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

 

-     1983 – 1995 Chairman & CEO - Export Development Bank of Egypt.

 

-     1980 – 1983 Manager Economics Dept. - Industrial Bank of Kuwait (on secondment from Alexandria University).

 

-     1974 – 1979 Senior Economist - Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development (on secondment from Alexandria University).

 

-     1965 – 1980 Assistant Professor, associated Professor, and then full Professor - University of Alexandria, Egypt.

 

 

 

    E.    Publications:

 

·            English Publication:

 

Books

 

-     The Arab Gulf Economy in a Turbulent Age, Croom Helm, London 1984.

 

-     The Renter State, with Giocomo Luciani, Croom Helm London 1987.

 

Articles

 

-     The Dollar crisis, Oil prices and the Foreign Exchange Risk: The case for a Basket of Currencies as numeraire, International Journal for Middle East Studies 11, 1980.

 

-     (With E. Shafei) Strategic options of Development for Kuwait 1980. The IKB Parpers, The Industrial Bank of Kuwait, July 1980.

 

-     International Financial Markets: The End of Stability? The IBK Parpers, The Industrial Bank of Kuwait, January 1981.

 

-     The Arab Gulf States Predicament : Individual Gains and collective losses, in Rich and Poor States in the Middle East (ed) M. Kerr, S. Yassin, Western View Press, 1981.

 

-     Oil Surplus Funds : The Impact of the Mode of Placement, OPEC Fund for International Development, Series no. 16, Vienna 1981

 

-     Gulf Foreign Investment Coordination : Needs and Modalities, Arab Gulf Journal, April 1983.

 

-     (With R. Fahmi), The Kuwait Stock Market, 1946 – 1980, The IBK, The Industrial Bank of Kuwait, 1982.

 

-     The Reagan Program and American Economy: An Appraisal in Perspective, Finance and Industry no. 2, 1981.

 

·            French Publications:

 

Books

 

-     L’Interdependance Agriculture – Industrie et le Developpment Economique’ le cas de l’Egypte, Edition cujas, Paris, 1968.

 

Articles

 

-     La Zone Franc et l’Aide Francaise de cooperation, L’Egypte Contemporaine, January 1966.

 

-     La Reforme Agraire et les cooperatives Agricoles en Egypte, Archives Internationale de sociologie de la cooperation et du Development, Paris Juillet – Decembre 1968, no. 24

 

-     Le Role de l’Etat dans le Developpment Economique. Institute International du Droit d’Expression et d’Inspiration Francaise, Brucxelle 1997.

 

·            Arabic Publications: Many books, articles and papers in Arabic.

 

 

 

 

F.    Awards and Prizes:

 

 

-     1964 Award for best dissertation, University of Paris, France

 

-     1983 Award from Kuwait Foundation for Science Advancement (Economics), Kuwait

 

-     1992 Chevalier de la legion d’honeur, France.

 

-     1992 Commandour, “Leopld II”, Belgium.

 

-     2000 Grand Officier, “Cedre de Liban”, Lebanon

 

 

 

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 Hazem EL Beblawi

 

Resume

 

 

Presently:

-     Advisor and Acting Director of the Legal Department, Arab Monetary Fund, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

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Previously:

He served as Under Secretary General of the U.N., Executive Secretary for ESCWA (1995-2000)  and was chairman of the Export Development Bank of Egypt (1983-1995). He Started his career in the academia at the University of Alexandria since 1965 and he became Professor of Economics in 1976. He is also, Emeritus Professor of Economics Alexandria University. He taught at the universities of Cairo, Ein Chams, the American University at Cairo, Kuwait, California, Los Anglos and the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes (Sorbonne, Paris)

 

He published several books & articles on money and banking, international trade, finance, and development. He also has a newspaper coulume in the Egyptian paper Al Ahram.

 

He is:

-     Chevalier de la legion d’ Honeur, France.

-      Commandour, “Leopld II”, Belgium.

-     Grand Officier, “Cedre de Liban”, Lebanon.