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• Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali has taken over as Minister of Finance since July 2004. Earlier, he had been Minister of Foreign Trade since November 2001.
• From October 1999 to October 2001, he was Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade.
• From July 1997 to September 1999 , he was Minister of Economy. From January 1996 to June 1997 he was Minister of State for Economic Affairs.
• Between April 1993 through December 1995, he was Minister of State for International Cooperation and Minister of State at the Council of Ministers.
• Prior to these posts,(1986-1993), he was Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister and the Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt for seven years. He has also worked as a Senior Economist for six years at the International Monetary Fund (1981-1986).
• Before engaging in politics, he had already practiced a distinguished academic career. He got his BA degree in economics from Cairo University . Then, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981).
• Dr. Boutros-Ghali had been an Associate Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University ; Director of the Center for Economic Analysis at the Council of Ministers; and between 1991-1993, he was a member of the Board of Directors at the National Bank of Egypt . He also lectured economics at the American University in Cairo and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA .
• Over the last twenty years, Dr. Boutros-Ghali has published twenty-two papers and books on a wide range of theoretical and development issues in the field of economics.