Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani

{{Short description|Yemeni politician (1939–2011)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani

| office = 2nd Prime Minister of Yemen

| image = Abdulaziz Abdulghani.jpg

| imagesize =

| president = Ali Abdullah Saleh

| term_start = 6 October 1994

| term_end = 14 May 1997

| predecessor = Muhammad Said al-Attar

| successor = Faraj Said Bin Ghanem

| office1 = 11th Prime Minister of Yemen Arab Republic

| primeminister1 =

| term_start1 = 13 November 1983

| term_end1 = 22 May 1990

| predecessor1 = Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani

| successor1 = Post abolished

| office2 =

| term_start2 = 25 January 1975

| term_end2 = 15 October 1980

| predecessor2 = Abdul Latif Dayfallah {{small|(Acting)}}

| successor2 = Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani

| office3 = 1st Governor of Central Bank of North Yemen

| term_start3 = 1970

| term_end3 = 1975

| predecessor3 = Post established

| successor3 =

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1939|07|04}}

| birth_place = Hayfan, Taiz Governorate, Yemen

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2011|8|22|1939|07|04}}

| death_place = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

| party = General People's Congress

| spouse = Aceya Hamza (m. 1966)

| children = 6

| alma_mater = Colorado College
University of Colorado

| native_name_lang = ar

| native_name = {{nobold|عبد العزيز عبد الغني}}

}}

Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-us-Abdul-Aziz Abdulghani from Yemen pronunciation (Voice of America).ogg|ˈ|ɑː|b|d|ʊ|l|_|ə|ˈ|z|iː|z|_|ˈ|ɑː|b|d|ʊ|l|_|ˈ|ɡ|ɑː|n|i}} {{respell|AHB|duul|_|ə|ZEEZ|_|AHB|duul|_|GAH|nee}}; 4 July 1939 – 22 August 2011) was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997,{{cite web| url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-123101011.html | title = Parliament- (Pakistan, Yemen to establish friendship groups in Parliament) | access-date = 2010-08-10 | date = 2004-10-09 | publisher = Pakistan Press International}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party.

Ghani also served as the second Vice President of Yemen Arab Republic in the 1980s, and as the Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic twice. His first term was from 1975 to 1980, and his second term was from 1983 to unification in 1990.{{cite book |last=de Gruyter |first= Walter|title= Who's Who in the Arab World 2007-2008|date= 22 December 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NHCQBAFMwawC&pg=PA30 |publisher= Publictec Publications |page= 30|isbn= 9783110930047}}

Abdul Ghani was the president of the Consultative Council (Shura Council) from 2001 until his death in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://www.assecaa.org/index.php/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&catid=24|title=Assecaa}}

He received his BA degree in economics from Colorado College in the United States in 1962 and an MA in economics from the University of Colorado in 1964.

He died in Saudi Arabia on 22 August 2011 from injuries suffered in a June assassination attempt on President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a government official with Saleh in Riyadh said.

Ghani was the first senior political figure to die from the explosion in Saleh's palace mosque which forced the president and a number of his aides to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.{{cite web|author=Hakim Almasmari|title=Senior Yemen official dies from palace attack injuries|website=CNN|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/22/yemen.ghani.dead/}}