[citation needed] In 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt at the time, chose him to be the only Coptic Christian Minister (Secretary) of supply and trade in the Egyptian cabinet.
He launched a program to sell food staples to the public at subsidized prices through government-owned stores.
[citation needed] Stino also initiated the development of the National Poultry Company that introduced broilers for the first time in Egypt; the National Meat Company which tried to produce a larger buffalo veal in Egypt and the National Fishery Company that introduced raising fish commercially and that had the first high sea commercial fishing fleet in Egypt.
When she died due to complications during delivery, he married her sister, Lady Madeline, and had a son, Sherif, and a daughter, Maisie.
[citation needed] In addition to being a prominent figure in Egyptian politics himself, Dr Stino's brother Moheb was also appointed as minister of tourism and aviation under President Sadat.