Appointment of Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as Prime Minister of Kuwait

Yesterday, Monday, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, issued a decree appointing Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as Prime Minister.

According to the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the emir’s order issued by Kuwait’s emir Sheikh Meshaal Ahmed stipulates that the new prime minister’s task is to nominate new cabinet members and submit their names to him for a decree to appoint them.

Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was appointed Prime Minister about a week ago, after Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah accepted the resignation of Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah on April 7, which he submitted a day after the announcement of the results of the 2024 parliamentary elections.

The formation of the Kuwaiti government is expected to be the 46th in the country’s political history and the second in the era of Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad, who took power last December.

This is also the first government formed by economist Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who is no stranger to politics as he held several ministerial positions before being appointed head of the Crown Prince’s Court in September 2021.

Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah was born in 1952. He attended the Oriental School and later the American Boarding School in Lebanon.

He went to the United States to study at the University of Illinois, where he majored in banking finance and investment, graduating in 1976. He then worked at the Kuwait Financial Center until 1978, and then at the Central Bank until 1987, where his last position was Director of the Banking Supervision Department. From 1987 to 1998, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burgen Bank, and in July 1999 he became Minister of Finance, and in 2001 he became Minister of Transport. On July 14, 2003, he was appointed Minister of Transport, Minister of State for Planning and Administrative Development.

On June 15, 2005, he concurrently served as Minister of Transport and Minister of Health. On February 9, 2009, he became Minister of Petroleum.

On September 20, 2021, the Council of Ministers approved a draft decree appointing Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah as the head of the Crown Prince’s Court at the ministerial level.

The late Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and the then Crown Prince Sheikh Meshaal Al-Sabah had sent him as a representative on several foreign visits.

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