Mohammad Shtayyeh
Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh (Arabic: محمد اشتية; born 17 January 1958) is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who has been Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority since March 2019.
Mohammad Shtayyeh | |
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محمد اشتية | |
Shtayyeh in 2022 | |
| Prime Minister of the State of Palestine | |
| Assumed office 14 April 2019 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Preceded by | Rami Hamdallah |
| Minister of the Palestinian Economic Council | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Member of the Central Committee | |
| Assumed office 2004 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 January 1958 (age 66) Tell, Jordanian West Bank |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Political party | Fatah |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex Birzeit University |
Elected to Fatah's Central Committee in the 2009 and 2016 elections, Shtayyeh is aligned with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Born in Tell, Nablus, in 1958, Shtayyeh was named a minister of Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR), a $1.6 billion public investment fund, in 1996. He served as its director of administration and finance from 1994 to 1996.
Shtayyeh was a member of the Palestinian advance team at the Madrid Conference in 1991 and a member of the Palestinian negotiation delegation on subsequent occasions. He was elected minister of public works and housing for the Palestinian Authority in 2005 and 2008.