DUBAI: A Kuwaiti Emiri decree has appointed Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah as prime minister, the state news agency, KUNA, reported on Thursday.
Sheikh Mohammed has been assigned to nominate members of the new government, KUNA added, citing the decree.
He was born in 1955 and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Claremont Graduate University, California, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Held position of teaching assistant at the Faculty of Commerce, Economics and Political Sciences at Kuwait University between 1979 and 1985. He was then appointed as a professor in the department in 1985. Worked at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research from 1987 to 1988.
He was appointed ambassador of Kuwait to the US in 1993 and held that position until he was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs on Feb. 14, 2001. Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Acting Minister of Social Affairs and Labor on July 14, 2003. On Feb. 9, 2006, he was named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was reappointed in the same posts in July 2006 and March 2007, and in the cabinet reshuffles of October 2007 and May 2008.
On Jan. 12, 2009, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Acting Minister of Oil. On May 29, 2009, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
-On May 8, 2011, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and held these positions in government until Oct. 2011.
