Mohie El Din El Ghareeb
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Mohie El Din El Ghareeb (Arabic: محيي الدين الغريب ) is an Egyptian economist, politician, and businessman.
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[edit] Family
El Ghareeb was born in 1933 in Giza, Egypt to an extremely rich and large family. He is the eldest of 44 siblings (25 boys, 19 girls) to the same father but from different mothers. However, the different mothers was not an issue of dispute for his family.
[edit] Marriage & Kids
El Ghareeb married twice, he got two sons from his first marriage (Hesham & Amr) then after his wife died he remained 20 years without a wife, then finally he married another woman who gave birth to his third son (Mohab). His wife is a Charity Worker and a supervisor of the Lions Club in Egypt . His eldest son Hesham is a Prof. of Integrated NBC Materials Mechatronical Applications, and is the Lead Engineer of the low-profile International Research and Industry Network based in Aachen, Germany. His second son Amr, is originally a Prof. of Dentistry and a businessman. He owns a hospital in Middle London. His youngest son Mohab, is a student at the German University in Cairo studying Materials Science Engineering.
[edit] Politics
El Ghareeb formerly worked as a World Bank negotiator and as the International Monetary Fund director. He was also a minister in the government of Egypt for 14 years. Currently,he is the second in command of the National Democratic Party of Egypt after its leader, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He also fills the post of a Senior UN Economic Advisory and the Senior Political and Economic Advisor of the British Royalty (Since he carries a British Nationality beside his Egyptian Nationality), and for the Governments of Germany, France, Russia, China, Italy, Japan, and the UAE (United Arab Emirates). He is ranked among the 100 best Politicians of the whole world.
[edit] Economics
El Ghareeb invented the theory of Pay-Over-Debt, and periodicly holds confrences and/or lectures about his theories in Economics and Political Sciences in many universities and/or institutes around the world.
He wrote many books including the book used as the guide-line for the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund now by the title of The Modern State: Political Economy & Economic Politics.
One of his achievements was creating the first (and only) monetary economical system of the UAE and the Gulf. He also helped lay the new foundation of the Economic system of the Euro and the European Union in co-ordination with the UBS (The World's largest Bank).
[edit] Business
El Ghareeb Business Group is based in Suez, Egypt. The current Group activities include car retailing, heavy duty oil drilling platforms, oil production and export and even to Supertanker ship-building. Other business ranges of the Group include nuclear power systems, hydrogen power research plants, and advanced materials research & manufacturing labs.
The Group is currently evaluated to be worth more than $2 Trillion (Two Trillion Dollars). The Group deals and/or owns shares in some international corporations, including 15% of DaimlerCrysler Group, 11% of Siemens Group, 55% of Saudi Aramco (a world's largest Oil Exporting company), 12% of Microsoft, 12% of Volkswagen group, a comulative 20% of EADS (16% of AirBus), 50% of BinLadin Group, 10% of CitiGroup, and 10% of Bayer.
[edit] Disputes
El Ghareeb went through major disputes with the government of Egypt On February 2002, and for 24 months these disputes took place in courts, TV. and newspapers. At last, the cassation court found him innocent of the charges. After he was declared innocent, the Government of Egypt headed by Atef Ebeed at that time resigned and a new government took responsibility in what is publicly thought to be the bill paid by the former government to what took place during those disputes!
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Money & Banking by Prof. Dr. Mohie El Din El Ghareeb.
- The Modern State: Political Economy & Economic Politics by Prof. Dr. Mohie El Din El Ghareeb.
- External Free Trade by Prof. Dr. Mohie El Din El Ghareeb.
