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Zafer Elbeshry
Zafer Elbeshry was a pioneer in the field of planning in Egypt. He served as the Egyptian Minister of State for Planning and for International Cooperation from 1996 to 2000, with the cabinet of the then Prime Minister Dr. Kamal El Ganzouri.. Zafer Elbeshry passed away on February 28, 2020.

Biography
He was born in Cairo. His grandfather, Saliem el-Beshry, was shaykh of al-Azhar from 1900–1904 and 1909-1916. His father, 'Abd al-Fattah al-Bishri, was president of the Egyptian Court of Appeal until his death in 1951.

He graduated from the Cairo University Faculty of Commerce in 1951. He started his career working in the Central Auditing Organization in Egypt. He then moved to the Egyptian Ministry of Finance's Planning Department. Subsequently, he moved to the Egyptian Ministry of Planning upon its creation the mid 1950s.

Zafer Elbeshry believed in the state of independence, his belief in the capabilities of Egypt to achieve its structural goals in advancing the future. His way to see his faith through, was to study the science of planning. He honed his skills in the field through a Master's degree from Poland. This has qualified him to participate with a few of his young peers in building the Ministry of Planning, and carrying out the task of developing five-year plans. Therefore, while he was still in his youth, he became one of the planning experts who President Gamal Abdel Nasser depended on for the five-year plans.

Consequently, the United Arab Emirates, which had been established in the beginning of the seventies, invited him as an expert to help develop its plan during the seventies. He returned to Egypt in the beginning of the eighties to the Ministry of Planning, where he held the position of the Managing Director of the Board of the Egyptian National Investment Bank. He maintained this position for the following decade.

He wrote a book entitled "The economy in the plan and the path during three decades" in which he discussed the circumstances of each of the five-year plans adopted by Egypt, and factors affecting the achievement of their goals.