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ELITE
Vol.1

Issue 44

June 2022

Interview with Former Minister of Finance, Dr. Samir Radwan for ELITE
: "Egypt’s future is in industrialization and

drawing up clear, stable industrial policies."

Interview Team: Dr. Ramy Ahmed, Noor Khaled, Nermine Nasser
Dialogue Editor: Dr. Nermine Tawfik

Dr. Samir Radwan is one of the most so that’s what I did. I fulfilled one of my
prominent names who served as Minister dreams and enrolled in the Economics
of Finance in Egypt during a critical period section.

of its history – after the revolution of the
25th of January. Combining academics Question: How was your life as a student at
with actual application in the fields of the Faculty of Economics and Political
work and employment, he had a prominent Science, and what were some of your
role in supporting development projects in activities there?
67 countries across the globe. This month, The Faculty, thanks to Dr. Zaki Shafei, the
we’ve had the pleasure of holding the dean, and the staff of distinguished
following discussion with him. professors, was like a second home. The
student body was quite small at the time, so
Question: How did your relationship with we all knew each other. As for the
the Faculty of Economics and Political relationship between the female and male
Science start, and why did you pursue your students, it was healthy and based on
studies there? respect. The female students dressed
At first, I wanted to join the diplomatic fashionably and modestly. We’d all go on

corps, and back then, there was no separate trips together under the Faculty’s
faculty for economics and political science. supervision. There was also healthy
Instead, it was a section in the Faculty of competition between the students across
Commerce; hence, I was enrolled in the different fields that aimed to fuel hard work
2 Faculty of Commerce at Cairo University. and excellence. We used to have a wall
After my first year there, the Faculty of newspaper titled “Nails,” edited by a
Economics and Political science was colleague called Ahmed Abdel Moneim
established, and students of the Faculty of (who later joined the presidency). Through
Commerce were allowed to transfer there, this newspaper, we would shed light on