Egypt’s cabinet under Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly

Cabinet ministers and their portfolios in Egypt

1. Mostafa Madbouly: Prime Minister
2. Hussein Eissa: Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs
3. Ashraf Salem Zaher: Minister of Defence and Military Production
4. Mahmoud Tawfik: Minister of Interior
5. Badr Abdelatty: Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates
6. Ahmed Kouchouk: Minister of Finance
7. Mohamed Farid: Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade
8. Ahmed Rostom: Minister of Planning
9. Khaled Hashem: Minister of Industry
10. Kamel El-Wazir: Minister of Transport
11. Sherif Mohamed Farouk: Minister of Supply and Internal Trade
12. Karim Badawi: Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
13. Mahmoud Esmat: Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy
14. Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar: Minister of Health and Population
15. Mohamed Abdel-Latif: Minister of Education and Technical Education
16. Abdel Aziz Konsowa: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
17. Maya Morsi: Minister of Social Solidarity
18. Hassan El-Radad: Minister of Labour
19. Randa El-Menshawy: Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities
20. Manal Awad: Minister of Local Development and Environment
21. Alaa Farouk: Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
22. Hany Sweilam: Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation
23. Sherif Fathy: Minister of Tourism and Antiquities
24. Sameh El-Hefny: Minister of Civil Aviation
25. Raafat Hindy: Minister of Communications and Information Technology
26. Diaa Rashwan: Minister of Information
27. Gihane Zaki: Minister of Culture
28. Gohar Nabil: Minister of Youth and Sports
29. Osama El-Azhari: Minister of Endowments (Awqaf)
30. Mahmoud Helmy El-Sherif: Minister of Justice
31. Hany Azer: Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

• Government: Madbouly leads the government as Prime Minister. He has held the post for nearly eight years, which makes him one of the longest-serving prime ministers in Egypt’s history.
• How changes are made: Under the constitution, the president proposes cabinet changes after consulting the prime minister, and the House of Representatives must approve them.
• Latest reshuffle: Parliament approved it on 10 February 2026, bringing in 13 new ministers. The previous major adjustment was in July 2024. President El-Sisi witnessed the swearing-in of the new ministers the next day.
• Mandate: The president’s directives focus on national security and foreign policy, economic development, production, energy, food security and human development.
• Single deputy PM: Madbouly now has just one deputy prime minister. Kamel El-Wazir and Khaled Abdel Ghaffar lost their deputy roles and were limited to the transport and health portfolios.
• Structural changes:
  • The environment portfolio was combined with local development, and international cooperation was folded into the foreign affairs ministry.
  • The Ministry of Information was reinstated under Diaa Rashwan.
  • The Industry and Transport ministry was split into two.
  • The Ministry of Public Business Sector was abolished.
• Security portfolios: The interior and foreign affairs ministers kept their posts. The defence ministry changed hands. Ashraf Salem was sworn in as the new defence minister. That is the same person as Ashraf Salem Zaher.

• Economy: Ahmed Kouchouk stayed at Finance, where he introduced tax reforms that pulled over EGP 1 trillion into the formal economy.