Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah issued an Emirati Decree on Sunday ordering a cabinet reshuffle affecting eight ministerial posts, mainly in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Information.
Based on this decree, Osama Khaled Abdullah Budai was appointed Minister of Commerce and Industry. Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Abdullah Subaih Abdullah Bukhtein is appointed Minister of Information and Culture. Yaqub Al-Sayed Yousef Al-Sayed Hashem Al-Refaee is appointed Minister of Finance.
The Decree also amends the appointment of Omar Saud Abdulaziz Al-Omar, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and Reem Ghazi Saud Al-Fraizi, Minister of Development and Sustainability.・Minister of State for Development and Sustainability, Mr. Ghazi Saud Al-Fraij, Minister of State for Development and Sustainability, Reem Ghazi Saud Al-Fraij, Minister of State for Development (Development), Minister of State for Development, Reem Ghazi Saud Al-Fraij, Minister of State for Development; Tareq Hamad Nasser Al Jarrahma for Youth and Sports. Mr. Abdulaziz Nasser Abdulaziz Almarzouk, Head of Economic Affairs and Investment;
Sheikh Jarrah, the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born on April 9, 1980. Since June 2023, he has served as a ministerial-level vice minister for foreign affairs. According to the Emiri Decree issued in May 2023, he was appointed Ambassador to the Commander-in-Chief Diwan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Sheikh Jarrah holds a BA in Economics from the University of Delaware, USA (2004). From 2020 to 2023, he worked in the Ministry’s Diwan Directorate, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was also a member of the Kuwait Mission to the United Nations in New York from 2017 to 2020.
From 2014 to 2017, he worked at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Austria and at the country’s mission to the United Nations and international organizations in Vienna. From 2011 to 2014, he served in the Office of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in General Diwan. He was the head of the Diwan’s economics department from 2005 to 2010 and joined the international organizations department in 2005.
Abdullah Buhtein, the new Minister of Information and Culture, is a well-known figure in Kuwait’s media circles. He served as deputy editor of the English-language daily Kuwait Times and also worked as a political talk show host on television.
