Hossam Badrawi

Hossam Badrawi (Arabic: حسام بدراوى ‎) is an Egyptian physician and politician. Badrawi owns the Nile Badrawi Hospital in Cairo’s Maadi district. He is also the founder of the Union Party.

Badrawi came from a family that affiliated with Egypt’s liberal Al-Wafd party. He entered the political life himself in the second half of the 1990s. In 2000, he joined the National Democratic Party with ex-president Hosni Mubarak, who was ruling the party, alongside with his son, Gamal Mubarak.

Published 120 research papers that had to do with his field: obstetrics and gynecology, and participated in eight text books that are related to his field, as well. His latest book about reforming the Education was published in November 2011.

Badrawi was appointed by ex-president Hosni Mubarak, during the Egyptian revolution of 2011 on February 5. He became the new secretary general of Hosni Mubarak's ruling NDP to replace NDP Stalwart Safwat Al-Sherif as party secretary general. On 11 February, less than a week after, he resigned from the position and the party. This was in attempt to still try and save the situation, when the protests intensified everywhere in Egypt. Badrawi announced his support to the revolution, by recommending Hosni Mubarak to step down, delegate his powers to vice president Omar Suleiman, and call for early elections, but Mubarak refused to make this move. One of the quotes that he announced regarding the advice he gave to Mubarak then was, “Egypt isn’t in need of tragic developments that don’t allow for economic development. We want work. We want companies to make profits and pay taxes. We want safety and stability.”

In 2010, Badrawi criticized the opposition for refusing to let Gamal Mubarak run in the presidential elections. Accordingly, one of his famous quotes is, “If President Hosni Mubarak doesn’t stand in 2011 elections, it’s natural that the NDP select Gamal Mubarak as its candidate.”

Badrawi lost his seat in the parliament, when he ran again in 2005, to businessman Hisham Mostafa Khalil.

In addition, Badrawi became one of the members of the National Council for Human Rights in 2004 and stayed till 2007, where he helped head the council’s committee on issues regarding social rights. He also became a member of the board of trustees in the Bibliotheca Alexandria in Egypt.

Hossam Badrawi graduated from Cairo University Kasr ElAini, faculty of medicine with an honours degree in 1974. He went to Wayne State University-Detroit-Michigan between 1979 and 1983, where he obtained his graduate studies in the use of scanning electron microscopy. Badrawi then completed his post graduate studies at North Western University, and fulfilled graduate studies in Curricula and study programs’ methodologies and development. In 2007, Prof. Badrawi obtained his PhD in science from Sunderland University in the United Kingdom, for outstanding work in higher education reform in the Middle East region.