Youssef Boutros Ghali
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Youssef Boutros Ghali (يوسف بطرس غالي) is the Minister of Finance in Egypt since 2004. Before that he held the posts of Minister for international cooperation and followed by Minister of Ecomony.
He is a graduate of the Jésuites high school in Cairo and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. His uncle is Boutros Boutros Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations.
His reforms of the Egyptian Tax system included introduction of new Tax Laws that canceled a lot of the previous excemptions from Tax in favour of lower rates and his decision not to continue with the prosecution of thousands of cases that originated from the previous rules.