Saad El-Katatni

Saad El-Katatni
سعد الكتاتني
Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party
Assumed office
19 October 2012
Preceded byMohamed Morsi
Speaker of the People's Assembly
In office
23 January 2012  22 September 2012
Appointed byPeople's Assembly
PresidentMohamed Hussein Tantawi ( as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt)
Mohamed Morsi
Prime MinisterKamal Ganzouri
Hesham Qandil
Preceded byAhmad Fathi Sorour (2011)
Succeeded byAli Abdel Aal (2016)
Secretary-General of the Freedom and Justice Party
In office
30 April 2011  22 January 2012
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byHussein Mohamed Ibrahim
Personal details
Born
Mohamed Saad Tawfik El-Katatni

(1952-03-04) 4 March 1952
Girga, Egypt
Political partyFreedom and Justice Party
Alma materMinya University
ProfessionAcademic

Saad El-Katatni (Arabic: سعد الكتاتني, alternatively spelled El-Katatny or Al-Katatni; born 4 March 1952) is an Egyptian Islamist politician who has been the chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) since October 2012. From January 2012 until its dissolution in September he was the first Speaker of the People's Assembly after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Prior to this, he served as the first secretary-general of the FJP and was a member of the Guidance Bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood.