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Ashraf Gamal Al-Din, deputy executive director for the Egyptian Banking Institute, declined an offer to serve as the president of Egypt’s Postal Authority. He said that his decision was motivated by a number of unresolved technical issues that he did not wish to discuss, adding that he would remain at his post at the Egyptian Banking Institute.
Atif Halmi, communications and information technology minister, stated that Gamal Al-Din had been selected to serve as the president of the Postal Authority’s Board of Directors by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil. If he had accepted the position Al-Din‘s term would have begun on 1April.
Gamal Al-Din received his doctorate in management and development policy from the University of Manchester in 1997. Throughout his life, he spent more than 25 years working in a series of private, government, administrative and financial positions, becoming the deputy executive director of the Egyptian Banking Institute within Egypt’s Central Bank, in addition to serving on the board of directors for a number of private companies working in the Investment, Insurance, Tourism, Transportation, and Cement industries. He has worked with the Suez Canal Company, in addition to serving as a professor at Cairo University, Nile University, the American University of Cairo, and the University of La Verne in California.
