Nabil Fahmi

{{Short description|Egyptian diplomat and politician (born 1951)}}

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| office = Minister of Foreign Affairs

| primeminister = Hazem Al Beblawi
Ibrahim Mahlab

| predecessor = Mohamed Kamel Amr

| successor = Sameh Shoukry

| term_start = 16 July 2013

| term_end = 17 June 2014

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|1|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = New York

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| party = Independent

| otherparty = Constitution Party (until July 2013)

| alma_mater = American University in Cairo

| profession = Diplomat, Academic

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| nationality = Egyptian

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Nabil Fahmi (born 5 January 1951) is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who served in the government of Egypt as minister of foreign affairs from June 2013 to July 2014.

Early life and education

Nabil Fahmi was born in New York on 5 January 1951. His father, Ismail Fahmi, was Anwar Sadat's foreign minister from 1973 to 1977.{{cite news|author=Michale Collins Dune|title=Nabil Fahmy accepts the Egyptian foreign ministry

|url=http://mideasti.blogspot.com/2013/07/nabil-fahmy-accepts-egyptian-foreign.html|access-date=15 July 2013|work=Middle East Institute|date=15 July 2013}}{{cite news|title=PM Beblawi and his cabinet|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23249049|access-date=16 July 2013|work=BBC|date=16 July 2013}}

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and mathematics and a master's degree in management, both of which he received from the American University in Cairo in 1974 and 1976, respectively.{{cite web|title=Nabil Fahmy

|url=http://www.weforum.org/global-agenda-councils/nabil-fahmy|work=World Economic Forum|accessdate=15 July 2013}}

Career

Fahmi is a career diplomat. He served in the Egyptian cabinet from 1974 to 1978 in various posts, including deputy foreign minister. He also assumed the post of advisor to the Vice President of Egypt and was the secretary of the president for external communications from February 1974 to August 1976. He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in different capacities, including member of the Egyptian mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva and New York and political advisor from August 1993 to September 1997. He served as the Ambassador of Egypt to Japan from September 1997 to September 1999.{{cite news|title=Nabil Fahmy, former Egyptian Ambassador to US named FM|url=http://www.yalibnan.com/2013/07/14/nabil-fahmy-former-egyptian-ambassador-to-us-named-fm/|accessdate=14 July 2013|work=Ya Libnan|date=14 July 2013}} Next he served as the Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from October 1999 to September 2008.{{cite news|title=Egypt Swears In ElBaradei as Interim Vice President|date=14 July 2013

|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/egypt-swears-in-elbaradei-as-interim-vice-president/1701433.html|access-date=14 July 2013|work=Voice of America}}{{cite web|title=Participants and Biographies|url=http://www.acsis.org/participants5.asp|work=Arab Institute for Security Studies|access-date=15 July 2013}} Therefore, his term saw the September 11 attacks.{{cite news|title=Interview: Nabil Fahmy|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terrorism/interviews/fahmy.html|date=September 2001|access-date=15 July 2013|work=PBS}}

From 1999 to 2003 he was also among the members of the UN Secretary General's advisory board on disarmament issues and he was appointed chairman of the board in 2001.{{cite web|title=Former Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Nabil Fahmy to Discuss Implications of the Arab Spring April 9|url=http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/events/2012/former-egyptian-ambassador-us-nabil-fahmy-discuss-implicatio|work=University of Texas at Austin

|access-date=15 July 2013|location=Austin|date=2 April 2012}} Upon returning to Cairo he was named Ambassador-at-Large at the ministry.

After leaving his diplomatic post, he entered politics. He was a member of the Constitution Party headed by Mohamed ElBaradei.{{cite news|title=Former ambassador to US named Egypt FM|access-date=14 July 2013|work=Al Jazeera|date=14 July 2013|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/07/2013714104423230655.html}} He also joined The American University in Cairo as a faculty member.{{cite news|title=Academics get key posts in caretaker government|access-date=20 October 2013

|url=http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130719083126238|work=University World News|issue=281)|date=19 July 2013|author=Ashraf Khaled}} He is also the founding dean of university's school of public affairs.{{cite web|title=Nabil Fahmy|access-date=15 July 2013|url=http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/profiles/pages/nabilfahmy.aspx|work=The American University in Cairo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718143424/http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/profiles/pages/nabilfahmy.aspx|archive-date=18 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|title=Post-Morsy Egypt forging government of technocrats|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/14/world/meast/egypt-government|access-date=15 July 2013|work=CNN|date=15 July 2013|author=Nick Paton-Walsh|author2=Schams Elazar|author3=Joe Sterling}} In addition, he worked as the dean at the faculty.{{cite news|author=Ray Mosely|title=Noted Egyptian diplomat Nabil Fahmy warns against new Western military adventures in Middle East|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/06/23/154530.html|access-date=15 July 2013|work=Al Arabiya|date=23 June 2011|location=London}} He was named non-resident chair of the Middle East project carried out by the James Martin center for nonproliferation studies in 2009.{{cite web|title=Ambassador Nabil Fahmy|publisher=James Martin CNS

|url=http://cns.miis.edu/staff/fahmy_nabil.htm|access-date=15 July 2013}} He was also a board member of McLarty associates.{{cite web

|title=Nabil Fahmy|url=http://www.maglobal.com/?q=node/67|work=McLarty Associates|access-date=15 July 2013}}

On 14 July 2013, he announced that he accepted a proposal to become minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Egypt led by Hazem Al Beblawi.{{cite news|title=Nabil Fahmy appointed Egypt foreign minister|access-date=15 July 2013|work=GMA News

|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/317469/news/world/nabil-fahmy-appointed-egypt-foreign-minister|date=14 July 2013}}{{cite news|title=Former Egyptian ambassador to U.S. named foreign minister|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-politics-foreign-idUSBRE96D03220130714|access-date=14 July 2013|work=Reuters|date=14 July 2013|location=Cairo}} He accepted the post after Mohamed Kamel Amr had declared his intention not to continue in the post.{{cite news|title=Nabil Fahmy accepts foreign minister post, Cabinet talks ongoing|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/nabil-fahmy-accepts-foreign-minister-post-cabinet-talks-ongoing|accessdate=15 July 2013|newspaper=Egypt Independent|date=14 July 2013|agency=MENA/Reuters}} On 16 July Fahmi's term as foreign minister began.{{cite news|title=Egypt's interim president is swearing in first government|work=Ahram Online|date=16 July 2013

|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/76619/Egypt/Politics-/BREAKING-Egypts-interim-president-is-swearing-in-f.aspx|accessdate=16 July 2013}} Fahmi suspended his membership at the Constitution Party when he began to serve as foreign minister.{{cite web

|author=Amira Mikhail|title=Key Positions in Beblawi's Interim Government|url=http://www.acus.org/egyptsource/key-positions-beblawis-interim-government|work=Atlantic Council|access-date=20 July 2013|date=18 July 2013}}

Personal life

Fahmi is married and has three children.{{cite web|title=Ambassador Nabil Fahmy|url=http://blscc.lxr.com.eg/fahmybio.html

|work=Baltimore Luxor Alexandria Sister City Committee|access-date=15 July 2013}} He publishes various articles in his blog at The Huffington Post.{{cite news|title=Blog of Nabil Fahmy|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nabil-fahmy|accessdate=15 July 2013|work=The Huffington Post}} He is the author of Egypt’s Diplomacy in War, Peace and Transition which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.{{cite book|author=Nabil Fahmi|title=Egypt's Diplomacy in War, Peace and Transition|publisher=Springer International Publishing|year=2020|isbn=978-3-030-26388-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmzLDwAAQBAJ|location=Cham}}

He was given an honorary PhD by the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Middlebury College, in May 2009.