El-Sayyid el-Badawi

Elsayyid Elbadawi
Chairperson of the New Wafd Party
Assumed office
28 May 2010
Preceded byMahmoud Abaza
Personal details
Born
Elsayyid Elbadawi Shehata

1950 (age 74–75)
Tanta, Egypt
Political partyAl-Wafd Party

Elsayyid Elbadawi Shehata (Egyptian Arabic: السيد البدوى شحاته, IPA: [esˈsæjjed elˈbædæwi ʃeˈħæːtæ]; born 1950) is an Egyptian businessman and the former President of El-Wafd Party. He is the head of the Board of Directors of Al-Hayah Egyptian television network.[1]

Early life

Badawi was born in 1950 and grew up in Tanta governorate. He graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Alexandria in 1973.[2]

Career

Badawi started his political career in the 1980s and joined Wafd Party in 1980 where he was elected as secretary general of the party in 2000.[3]

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