
Ahmed Shafik (25 November 1941-) was Prime Minister of Egypt from 29 January to 3 March 2011, succeeding Ahmed Nazif and preceding Essam Sharaf.
Biography[]
Ahmed Shafik was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1941, and he served in the Egyptian Air Force from 1962 to 2002, fighting in the War of Attrition and serving under Hosni Mubarak during the Yom Kippur War. Shafik served as commander-in-chief of the Air Force from 1996 to 2002 and as Civil Aviation Minister from 2002 to 2011, when, amid the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Mubarak appointed Shafik to serve as Prime Minister. He served for just one month before resigning after the novelist Alaa Al Aswany accused him of being a Mubarak regime holdover. He went on to run for President as the candidate of the liberal Egyptian Patriotic Movement, losing to the Islamist Mohamed Morsi.