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Muhammad Abdullah Muhammad Mustafa “Al-Safarini” ( Abu Musab ; August 26 , 1954 ) is a Palestinian politician , economist , and statesman . He was born in the village of Kafr Sur in Tulkarm Governorate . He has been serving as Prime Minister since March 31, 2024 . He is the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs . He is an independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization , Head of the Organization’s Economic Department, Advisor to the Palestinian President for Economic Affairs, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian Investment Fund . He served as Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister for Economic Affairs in the fifteenth Palestinian government in 2013. He held the same position in the sixteenth Palestinian government in 2013 and 2014. He also served as Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy in the seventeenth Palestinian government (Government of National Accord) in 2014 until he submitted his resignation from it in 2015 .
His upbringing and educational attainment
Muhammad Abdullah Muhammad Mustafa “Al-Safarini” is from the village of Safarin in the Tulkarm Governorate . He was born on August 26, 1954 in the village of Kafr Sur in the Tulkarm Governorate , where Safarin is his father’s town, while Kafr Sur is the town of his mother.
Muhammad was the middle son among his three male siblings and the fifth among six brothers and sisters. His “Safarini” family is one of the well-known and extended families in both the village of Safarin and the city of Tulkarm . [4] The main family office is located in the southern neighborhood of Tulkarm .
Muhammad received his education in the schools of Tulkarm Governorate until 1969 , when he was fifteen years old, when he moved with his family to Kuwait , where his father had worked since 1967 , and Muhammad finished high school there.
In 1972, he joined the University of Baghdad , where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 1976. In 1983, he joined George Washington University in the United States of America , from which he obtained a master’s degree in management in 1985. He continued his education in the same year 1985 at George Washington University, where he obtained Including a doctorate in business administration and economics in 1988 .
Political and economic life
After graduating in 1976 from the University of Baghdad, he returned to Kuwait and his first job was as an engineer in one of the consulting offices in Kuwait . Then he worked in a joint Kuwaiti-English contracting company, where he held the position of chief engineer. At the age of twenty-five, he became responsible for thirty engineers and about Three hundred employees.
After seven years of work in Kuwait , he moved to the United States of America , where he continued his graduate studies. He was also a visiting professor at George Washington University in 1991 .
From 1991 until 2005 , he held several senior positions at the World Bank in Washington , where he worked at the bank in the Industry and Energy Department for the Africa region , then in the Eastern Europe Department , then in the Infrastructure and Privatization Department for the Middle East region , and during this period he contributed to the development of many Telecommunications companies such as Orange and Fastlink in Jordan , the Saudi Telecom Company , and other companies in Egypt , Lebanon , Africa , Bulgaria , and Russia .
He worked as an economic reform advisor to the government of Kuwait , and an advisor to the Public Investment Fund in Saudi Arabia .
In 1995, he returned to Palestine temporarily following the signing of the Oslo Accords , where he spent a year and a half contributing to the establishment of the telecommunications sector in Palestine . He was the founding CEO of the Palestinian Telecommunications Company “Paltel” between 1995 and 1996 , and then returned to work in The World Bank in Washington .
In 2005, he resided permanently in Palestine after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed him to the position of Advisor to the Palestinian President for Economic Affairs in the Palestinian Presidential Office, effective November 1 , 2005 .
In early 2006 , Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed him to the position of CEO of the Palestine Investment Fund, and he continued to do so until 2013. Since 2015 until today, he has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestine Investment Fund, appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas .
He served as Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister for Economic Affairs in the fifteenth Palestinian government from June 6, 2013 until September 19 , 2013. He held the same position in the sixteenth Palestinian government from September 19, 2013 until June 2 , 2014. Then he served as Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy. The Palestinian in the seventeenth Palestinian government (the Palestinian National Accord Government) from June 2, 2014 until he submitted his resignation from it on March 31 , 2015 .
In October 2014, he was Chairman of the Gaza Strip Reconstruction Committee at the donor conference in Cairo with the aim of reconstructing the Strip following the 2014 war .
He was chosen as a member of the Palestinian Central Council several Council sessions ago, and in February 2022 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Economic Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization , after the Palestinian Central Council held its thirty-first session at the Palestinian presidential headquarters in the city of Al-Bireh . .
On January 11, 2023 , Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed him to the position of Governor of the State of Palestine at the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development in the State of Kuwait , [17] and he continued to do so until January 2024 , when he assumed the position of Governor of the State of Palestine at the Arab Monetary Fund .
Muhammad Mustafa had led the efforts of the Palestine Investment Fund by establishing several major Palestinian companies, most notably the launch of the Palestinian Telecommunications Company (Paltel) in 1996 , the Wataniya Mobile Company (Ooredoo Palestine) in 2008 , the Ammar Group Company for Real Estate and Tourism Investment in 2009 , and the Rasmala Palestinian Stock Fund in 2008. 2011 , the Palestinian Ijara Company for Islamic Finance in 2013 , Aswaq Asset Management Company in 2014 , Masdar Company for Natural Resources Development and Infrastructure Projects in 2015 , Ammar Al-Quds Company in 2018 , the Palestine Power Generation Company, Sanad Construction Resources Company, and others.
He is a member of several international and local institutions, most notably the Davos World Economic Forum , [19] the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Palestine Studies , the Board of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Foundation , and many others.
Presidency of the Palestinian government
On March 14, 2024, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas assigned him to form the nineteenth Palestinian government , a “government of technocrats,” and on March 28, 2024, he presented the formation of his government to Palestinian President Abbas , according to which he approved it on the same day, and performed Sworn in as Prime Minister by President Abbas on March 31, 2024 .
Personal life
He has been married since 1980 to Amal Al-Qaq, with whom he has two sons: Musab and Yazan.
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