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{{short description|Egyptian politician}}
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| office = Minister of Planning and International Cooperation
| primeminister = [[Hisham Qandil]]
| predecessor = Ashraf Al Arabi
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| term_start = 7 May 2013
| term_end = 4 July 2013
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958|10}}
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| party = [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|Freedom and Justice Party]]
| alma_mater = [[Cairo University]]<br/> [[Purdue University]]
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| nationality = [[Egyptians|Egyptian]]
| children = 3
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'''Ahmed Amr Darrag''' (born October 1958) is the founder and chairman of the Egyptian Institute for Studies (EIS). EIS is a think tank based in Istanbul, Turkey. He is an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] engineer and politician, who briefly served as Egypt's minister of planning and international cooperation from 7 May to 4 July 2013 under the Freedom and Justice Party-led government.

==Early life and education==
Darrag was born in October 1958.<ref name=dailynews7may>{{cite news|title=Meet the ministers
|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Meet+the+ministers.-a0328953824|accessdate=18 June 2013|newspaper=Daily News|date=7 May 2013}}</ref> He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in soil mechanics and foundations both of which he received from [[Cairo University]] in 1980 and 1984, respectively.<ref name=dailynews7may/><ref name=acus>{{cite web|author=Nancy Messieh|title=Profiling Egypt's New Ministers |url=http://www.acus.org/egyptsource/profiling-egypts-new-ministers |work=Atlantic Council|accessdate=17 June 2013 |date=7 May 2013|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607200358/http://www.acus.org/egyptsource/profiling-egypts-new-ministers |archivedate=7 June 2013}}</ref> He also obtained a PhD in soil mechanics and foundations from [[Purdue University]] in 1987.<ref name=dailynews7may/><ref name=weforum>{{cite web|title=Amr Darrag
|url=http://www.weforum.org/contributors/amr-darrag|work=World Economy Forum|accessdate=18 June 2013}}</ref>

==Career==
Darrag began his career in 1987 as a senior engineer for Erdman and Associates Inc. in [[Orlando, Florida]], where he worked for one year.<ref name=dailynews7may/> He served as the board chairman at Egyptian engineering consultancy firm, Engineering House of Expertise.<ref name=dailynews7may/> He also worked as professor of geotechnical engineering at Cairo University.<ref name=ClarkeEngineers1999>{{cite book|author=Barry Goldsmith Clarke|title=Urban Ground Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGxDA3V_G5IC&pg=PA65|year=1999|publisher=Thomas Telford|isbn=978-0-7277-2786-2|page=65}}</ref><ref name=br/> In addition, he served as director of corporate planning and business development at the Egyptian Group for Engineering Consultations (EGEC).

He is one of the founding members of [[Freedom and Justice Party (Egypt)|the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)]], a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamist party in Egypt.<ref name=acus/><ref name=et2012>{{cite web|title=Who's Who in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/whos-who-in-the-muslim-brotherhood#AmrDarrag|publisher=The Washington Institute|access-date=27 June 2013|author=Eric Trager|author2=Katie Kiraly|author3=Cooper Klose|author4=and Eliot Calhoun|name-list-style=amp|date=September 2012}}</ref> He served as the party secretary in [[Giza Governorate|Giza governorate]].<ref name=top3jan>{{cite news|author=Sarah A. Topol|title=Why Egypt Embraces the Brotherhood|url=http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/why-egypt-embraces-the-muslim-brotherhood/|access-date=18 June 2013|newspaper=International Herald Tribune|date=3 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Amr Darrag|title=A Revolutionary Foreign Policy|access-date=18 June 2013|work=Foreign Policy|date=16 October 2012|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/15/a_revolutionary_foreign_policy}}</ref> He was appointed chairman of the party's foreign relations committee in July 2012 and also, served as chairman of its development and planning committee.<ref name=br/><ref name=cna17jan/> He is a member of the higher commission and executive board of the party.<ref name=br>{{cite web|title=2013 U.S.-Islamic World Forum Speakers|work=Brookings|access-date=18 August 2013|url-status=dead|url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/islamic-world/usiwf-2013-speakers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205065658/http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/islamic-world/usiwf-2013-speakers|archive-date=5 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=cna17jan>{{cite news|title=Darrag: Egypt aspires to be a regional leader again|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Darrag%3a+Egypt+aspires+to+be+a+regional+leader+again.-a0316523731|access-date=18 June 2013|newspaper=Sunday's Zaman|date=27 January 2013|location=Cairo}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Amr Darrag|title=Egypt’s Blood, America’s Complicity|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/opinion/egypts-blood-americas-complicity.html?_r=0|access-date=17 August 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 August 2013}}</ref> He was secretary general of [[Constituent Assembly of Egypt|the constituent assembly]] that was tasked with drafting Egypt's 2012 constitution.<ref name=weforum/><ref>{{cite news|title=Constituent Assembly official asks court to repeat all hearings before verdict on assembly's fate|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/constituent-assembly-official-asks-court-repeat-all-hearings-verdict-assembly-s-fate|access-date=18 June 2013|newspaper=Egypt Independent|date=18 October 2012}}</ref>

In the general elections of 2011, he ran for a parliamentary seat in Giza on the list of the FJP, but lost the election.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mahmud El Shafey|title=Egypt appoints nine new ministers in cabinet reshuffle
|url=http://www.aawsat.net/2013/05/article55300966|accessdate=18 June 2013|newspaper=Asharq Alawsat|date=7 May 2013
|location=London}}</ref> On 7 May 2013, Darrag was appointed minister of planning and international cooperation to [[Qandil Cabinet|the cabinet]] headed by prime minister [[Hisham Qandil]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Egypt’s PM announces nine new ministers in cabinet reshuffle|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/07/Egypt-s-PM-announces-ministerial-changes-in-cabinet-reshuffle.html|accessdate=18 June 2013|work=Al Arabiya|date=7 May 2013|agency=Reuters}}</ref> Darrag replaced Ashraf Al Arabi in the post.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nine new ministers announced in Egypt cabinet reshuffle|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentPrint/1/0/70853/Egypt/0/Nine-new-ministers-announced-in-Egypt-cabinet-resh.aspx|accessdate=18 June 2013|work=Ahram Online|date=7 May 2013}}</ref> He and other FJP members in the cabinet resigned from office on 4 July 2013 following the [[2013 Egyptian coup d'état|2013 coup]] in Egypt.<ref>{{cite news|title=Egypt Brotherhood ministers present official resignations
|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/75724/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-Brotherhood-ministers-present-official-resig.aspx|accessdate=18 July 2013|work=Ahram Online|date=4 July 2013}}</ref> His term officially ended on 16 July 2013 when the interim government led by [[Hazem Al Beblawi]] was formed.<ref>{{cite news|author=Abigail Hauslohner
|title=Interim Egyptian cabinet sworn in|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/deadly-clashes-erupt-in-cairo-after-us-diplomats-visit/2013/07/16/8fef7e1c-edff-11e2-9008-61e94a7ea20d_story.html|access-date=16 July 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=16 July 2013|location=Cairo}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Darrag is married and has three daughters.<ref name=top3jan/>

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