Who We Are

Board of Directors

His Excellency Abdullah Ali Al-Yahya

Minister of Foreign Affairs State of Kuwait, Chairman, Board of Director of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development

- Date of Birth: June 13, 1966

- Earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration Western Oregon State University (WOU), USA - 1988

- Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995

- Diplomatic Attaché, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait - 1995

- Embassy of the State of Kuwait to the Federal Republic of Germany - 1998-2001

- International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait - 2002-2006

- Secretary of the Board of Directors, Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah Diplomatic Institute - 2006-2018

- Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the Argentine Republic - 2018-2023

- Non-Resident Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the Republic of Paraguay - 2019-2023

- Non-Resident Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay - 2019-2023

- Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - 2023-2024

- Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait - January 2024


Board Members

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance, Ms. Aseel Suliman Al-Munaifi.
Director-General of the Kuwait Fund (KFAED), Mr. Waleed Shamlan Al-Bahar.
Mr. Hisham Ibrahim Al-Wugayan.
Dr. Fatima Saud Al-Salem.
Dr. Bader Saad Al-Hashel.
Dr. Saad Ahmad Al-Nahedh.
Dr. Dhari Suleiman Al-Rasheed.
Dr. Sarah Eissa Al-Khalaf.
 
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