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Mohammad Shtayyeh
محمد اشتية
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Shtayyeh in 2022
Prime Minister of Palestine
In office
13 April 2019 – 31 March 2024
President Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by Rami Hamdallah
Succeeded by Mohammad Mustafa
Personal details
Born (1958-01-17) 17 January 1958 (age 67)
Tell, Jordanian West Bank
Political party Fatah
Education Birzeit University (BA)
University of Sussex (MA, PhD)

Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh (Arabic: محمد اشتية; born 17 January 1958) is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority from 2019 to 2024. On 26 February 2024, he and his government announced their resignation, remaining in office in a demissionary capacity until a new government was formed on 31 March 2024.

Elected to Fatah's Central Committee in the 2009 and 2016 elections, Shtayyeh is aligned with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

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.

Education

Shtayyeh graduated from Birzeit University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics in 1981. He then attended the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, receiving his doctorate in economic development in 1989.

Career

Shtayyeh served as a professor of economic development from 1989 to 1991 at Birzeit University. He later became dean of student affairs there until 1993.

From 1995 until 1998, Shtayyeh held the position of Secretary-General of the Central Elections Commission of Palestine. Since 2005, Shtayyeh has been the Palestinian governor for the Islamic Bank. From 2005–2006 and then again from 2008–2010, he was the minister of public works and housing.

Elections Commission

As Secretary-General of the Central Elections Commission of Palestine, he negotiated an agreement with Israel in order to cooperate in the conduct of Palestinian presidential and legislative elections.

Prime Minister of Palestine

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Mohammad Shtayyeh discussing international relations at the Palace of Nations, Geneva in June, 2019.

Shtayyeh was appointed prime minister in March 2019, and took office on 13 April. During his premiership, he has pursued peace negotiations between Hamas, which de facto controls the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian central government in the West Bank.

When heads of state from the 55-member African Union met for a two-day summit in February 2022, Shtayyeh urged the African Union to remove Israel's observer status.

On 26 February 2024, in the midst of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war and its spillover in the West Bank, Shtayyeh announced he would resign, citing dissatisfaction with the current situation in the region and the need for "new governmental and political arrangements" as well as the full extension of Palestinian Authority control over the Palestinian territories. Shtayyeh further underlined unity and consensus between different Palestinian groups had become more urgent in the light of the ongoing genocide and starvation in the Gaza Strip. He remained in office as caretaker prime minister until President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Mohammad Mustafa as his replacement.

Boards and Commissions

  • President, Board of Trustees, Arab American University, Jenin
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Al Najah University, Nablus
  • Member, Board of Palestinian Academy for Security Sciences of Alistiqlal University
  • Member, Board of Trustees of Middle East Nonviolence Association
  • Member, Palestinian Development Fund
  • Member, National Committee for Voluntary Work
  • Founding member, Palestine Housing Council
  • President, Board of Palestinian Economists Association
  • Advisory Board, Information and Communication Committee, Office of the President
  • Head, Syria Relief Campaign 2012

Awards

See also

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