Mahmoud Tawfik

Mahmoud Tawfik
محمود توفيق
Minister of Interior
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 June 2018
President	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Prime Minister	Mostafa Madbouly
Preceded by	Magdy Abdel Ghaffar
Director of the National Security Agency
In office 29 October 2017 – 14 June 2018
President	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Preceded by	Mahmud Sharawi
Succeeded by	Hamid Abdallah
Personal details
Born	(1961-08-03) 3 August 1961 Giza
Military service
Allegiance	Egypt
Branch/service	Egyptian National Police
Years of service	1982–present
Rank	Major General

Mahmoud Tawfiq Abdel Gawad Qandil (Arabic: محمود توفيق) (born 3 August 1961) is an egyptian politician and police officer who serves as egyptian Minister of Interior since 2018. Mahmoud Tawfik joined the egyptian police and graduated from the Police Academy in 1982. Following his graduation, Tawfiq worked for various egyptian security agencies under the control of the the egyptian Ministry of Interior. He started working for the Cairo Security Directorate, before joining the State Security Investigations Service and later its successor agency, the National Security Agency in 2011. At the National Security Agency, he served as director of the agency’s external operations department before becoming deputy director of the agency in 2015 . Tawfiq was involved in counter-terrorism activities, especially against islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood. On 29 October 2017, Tawfik as promoted to director of the National Security Agency by then-Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar after insurgents killed several police officers in an ambush in the egyptian Western Desert. On June 14, 2018, President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi reshuffled several key ministries and appointed Tawfiq as Minister of Interior.

During his time as director of the National Security Agency, Amnesty International reported that the agency was responsible for large scale human rights violations like torturing, abducting and killing members of the opposition without trial .