Background
Kamel Ahmad el- Badri was born in December 1915, at Cherbeen in Lower Egypt.
engineer politician Lieutenant-General
Kamel Ahmad el- Badri was born in December 1915, at Cherbeen in Lower Egypt.
Educated at Cairo University where he graduated from the faculty of engineering in 1938.
After two years working on an irrigation project he joined the Army in 1940 and served in the Desert War with the British forces until 1945. He fought in the Palestine War of 1948 and then was assigned to build up ordnance factories. Having set them up, he was appointed to the board of directors. Next he became director-general of the Petroleum Organisation.
In 1959 he was brought into government as Under-Secretary for Industry but after two years he went back to the Petroleum Organisation as chairman of the Board. In 1965 he was appointed chairman of the Alexandria Port Authority and subsequently chairman of the Maritime Transport Association. In September 1971 he became Deputy Minister of War Production with the rank of major-general and in January 1972 received the honorary rank of lieutenant-general. In October 1972 he became Minister of War Production and held the portfolio after the big reshuffle on March 27, 1973, when President Sadat took over the premiership.
