Younes Hamed


Younes Hamed Al-Masri is the minister of Civil Aviation, and was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 2012 until 2018.
Hamed graduated from the Egyptian Air Academy on 16 December 1979. During his service in the Egyptian Air Force he was the commander of a flying squadron, an air brigade commander and an air area commander.
He was appointed to the post by President Mohamed Morsi on 14 August 2012, succeeding Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which was reorganized in September 2012. On 4 November 2013 he was promoted to the rank of air marshal. In 2015, he met with US Lieutenant General Charles Q. Brown Jr. to discuss military cooperation between Egypt and the United States. On 14 June 2018, he was appointed as the new Minister of Civil Aviation in Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly's new cabinet.

Military education