Al-Mashat holds meeting to present tourism sector plans

CAIRO - 15 January 2018: New minister of Tourism, Rania al-Mashat held a meeting on Monday, with the different central managers of Egyptian Tourism Authority to discuss their working plans and problems they face.

Head of the Authority, Hesham al-Dimairy and Deputy Head, Ahmed Hamdy attended the meeting.

“We have showed the Authority’s role and the obstacles it faces during the meeting that is held yesterday with the new minister,” Hesham al-Dimairy said to Youm7.

Rania al-Mashat Ph.D. worked in several important economic positions as a chief economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, and the deputy governor of the local central bank for monetary policy.

The new minister got her bachelor’s in Economics from, the American University in Cairo in 1995, and her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Maryland in 2001.