{{Short description|Egyptian politician and engineer (1920–2008)}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Aziz Sedky | image = Aziz Sedki.jpg | image_size = 210px | caption = Sedky in 1972 | order = 36th Prime Minister of Egypt | president = Anwar Sadat | birth_date = 1 July 1920 | birth_place = Cairo, Egypt | death_date = 25 January 2008 (aged 87) | death_place = Paris, France | term_start = 16 January 1972 | term_end = 26 March 1973 | predecessor = Mahmoud Fawzi | successor = Anwar Sadat | party = Arab Socialist Union | spouse = Leila Sioufi | native_name_lang = ar | native_name = {{nobold|عزيز صدقي}} }} '''Aziz Sedky''' ({{langx|ar|عزيز صدقي}}, {{IPA|ar|ʕæˈziːz ˈsedʔi<!--not [ˈsˤedʔi]-->|IPA}}; 1 July 1920 – 25 January 2008) was an Egyptian politician and engineer.<ref name=afd>{{cite news|title=The Death of Former Egyptian Prime Minister Aziz Sedki |url=http://arabdemocracyfoundation.org/news/more2.php?id=44 |work=Arab Democracy Foundation|date=26 January 2008|access-date=24 February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003085100/http://arabdemocracyfoundation.org/news/more2.php?id=44 |archive-date=3 October 2011}}</ref> Sedky served as the Prime Minister of Egypt from 16 January 1972 until 26 March 1973. He was nicknamed the "father of Egyptian industry."<ref name=afd/>
==Early life and education== Aziz Sedky was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 1 July 1920.<ref name=afd/> He graduated with a degree in engineering from Cairo University in 1944.<ref name=afd/> He went on to earn a doctorate in economic planning from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref name=afd/>
==Career== Sedky was appointed as a technical adviser to the Egyptian prime minister's office in 1955, a few years after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.<ref name=afd/> He next served as a full-time member of the services board until 1956.<ref name=afd/>
In 1956, Sedky was appointed as minister of industry by the President Gamal Abdel Nasser.<ref name=afd/> Among Sedky's tasks as minister was the supervision of an industrialization program, which was financed by the Soviet Union.<ref name=afd/> The Soviets were, at the time, an important ally of the Egyptian government. Sedky launched a five-year industrialization plan in 1957.<ref name=afd/> This initiative was later merged into a "general five-year development plan", which lasted from 1961 until 1965.<ref name=afd/> He was a member of the Arab Socialist Union from 1962 and became part of its secret unit, the Socialist Vanguard (Arabic: al-Tanzim al-Tali‘i), which was also called the Vanguard Organization, in 1963 when the unit was established.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Hesham Sallam|title=From the State of Vanguards to the House of Kofta: Reflections on Egypt's Authoritarian Impasse|access-date=5 November 2022|magazine=Jadaliyya|date=26 October 2020|url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41912}}</ref>
Sedky was promoted as deputy prime minister responsible for industry and mineral resources in 1964.<ref name=afd/> Simultaneously, he also became the minister of petroleum and mineral resources in 1964 as well.<ref name=afd/> In November 1970, Sedky was also named as the deputy prime minister for production and trade.<ref name=afd/>
Sedky was appointed prime minister on 16 January 1972, following the resignation of Mahmoud Fawzi.<ref name=afd/> He remained in office until 26 March 1973 when he was replaced by Anwar Sadat in the post.<ref name=afd/>
==Death== Aziz Sedky died at the age of 87 on 25 January 2008, at the Hospital Européen Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.<ref name=afd/>
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