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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Abeer Odeh, whose maiden name was Abeer Michael Boutros Al-Khoury, is a Palestinian politician and economist. She held the position of Minister of National Economy in the seventeenth Palestinian government, as she was the first Palestinian woman to hold this position throughout the successive Palestinian governments since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority. And she worked as a general manager of the Palestinian Capital Market Authority as the first Palestinian woman as well.
her life
Abeer Mikhail Boutros Khoury was born on July 19, 1961 in the village of Jifna, north of Ramallah and Al-Bireh.
practical life
Abeer Odeh assumed the duties of the Director General of the Palestinian Capital Market Authority as the first Palestinian woman to hold this position. She worked as a financial advisor and expert at the World Bank in Jerusalem between 1998-2001. She also worked as head of the Financial Analysis Unit at the United States Agency for International Development between 1998 and 2001. 2001-2009, and worked in the field of auditing, inspection, project management, financial and administrative management, and she holds a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University, in addition to obtaining the American certificate of a certified public accountant. Abeer Odeh held the position of Palestinian Minister of National Economy in the first cabinet reshuffle of the seventeenth government, from July 2015 to April 13, 2019.
On September 12, 2019, Odeh was sworn in as Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Italy.
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