Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak
{{short description|Yemeni politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak (28-02-2024).jpg
| office = Prime Minister of Yemen
| president = Rashad al-Alimi
| primeminister =
| term_start = 5 February 2024
| term_end = 3 May 2025
Disputed by Ahmad al-Rahawi
(Supreme Political Council)
| predecessor = Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed
| successor = Salem Saleh bin Braik
| office1 = Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen
| term_start1 = 18 December 2020
| term_end1 = 26 March 2024
| successor1 = Shaya Mohsin al-Zindani
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}}
| birth_place = Aden, South Yemen
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party =
| alma_mater = University of Baghdad
| native_name_lang = ar
| native_name = {{nobold|أحمد عوض بن مبارك}}
| caption = Mubarak in 2024
| termstart1 =
| office2 = General Secretary of the National Dialogue Conference
| termend2 = 2014 {{small|(as General Secretary of the Preparatory Committee of the NDC)}}
| termstart2 = June 2013
| president1 = Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi
Rashad al-Alimi
}}
Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak is a Yemeni politician who served as the prime minister of Yemen from 2024 to 2025. Before his appointment as Prime Minister, he was the former Foreign Minister of Yemen,{{Cite web |date=2024-03-27 |title=Yemen appoints Shayea Mohsen Al-Zindani as foreign minister, state news agency says |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2483471/middle-east |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Arab News |language=en}} and before that he served as Ambassador of Yemen to the United States.
Early and personal life
Mubarak was born in 1968 in Aden. He has three children. His father was a businessman.
He received a PhD in business administration from Baghdad University{{Cite web |url=http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2401089&language=en |title=Yemeni Pres. assigns bin Mubarak to form new gov't |access-date=9 October 2014 |archive-date=16 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016100655/http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2401089&language=en |url-status=live }} and is a professor at Sana'a University, where he heads the business administration center, which is cooperatively administrated by Sanaa University and Maastricht School of Management (MSM). Dr. Mubarak is attached as professor to the joint MBA program conducted by MSM and Sanaa University.
Previously, he served as consultant for numerous international projects in Yemen in education, employment and international development. He is also a member of the administrative board for the Youth Leaders Development Fund and had headed many administrative consultancies, training sessions and workshops for a number of public and private associations in Yemen, Bahrain, Burundi, Ethiopia, Romania, Netherlands, France and Germany.
At Science and Technology University in Sanaa, he had served as head of the administrative information technology and marketing and production administration departments, as well as being the manager of quality and development assurance from 2007 to 2009.
Politics
{{see|2014–15 Yemen unrest}}
In March 2013, Bin Mubarak was elected as the secretary general of the national reconciliation dialogue conference, composed of representatives of all political parties and civic groups, tasked with carrying out reforms. It was disbanded in January 2014 after endorsing a federal political system for the country.[http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141007/profile-yemeni-new-pm-ahmed-awad-bin-mubarak Profile: Yemeni new PM Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014101318/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141007/profile-yemeni-new-pm-ahmed-awad-bin-mubarak |date=14 October 2014 }} He was then director of the president's office.
After the Saudi-backed Yemeni government bombed the north of the country, the Houthis, whose traditional homeland is in the north, near the Saudi border, protested in the capital Sana'a. Armed protesters took over government areas. This uprising led to Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa's resignation. Bin Mubarak was promoted from Chief of Staff and appointed Prime Minister by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi despite Houthi opposition, citing a lack of an official agreement resolving the conflict.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/yemen-rebels-reject-new-prime-minister-2014107165014952535.html |title=Yemen rebels reject new prime minister |access-date=8 October 2014 |archive-date=8 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008084609/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/yemen-rebels-reject-new-prime-minister-2014107165014952535.html |url-status=live }} However, Ahmad withdrew from the post on 9 October 2014.
Bin Mubarak was abducted by gunmen believed to be loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on 17 January 2015.{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/17/ahmed-awad-bin-mubarak-yemen-presidents-chief-staf/|work=The Washington Times|title=Yemen president's chief of staff abducted by gunmen|date=17 January 2015|accessdate=22 January 2015|archive-date=21 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121152558/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/17/ahmed-awad-bin-mubarak-yemen-presidents-chief-staf/|url-status=live}} Houthi and government officials reached a deal on 21 January to end a months-long military and political standoff in the capital that was reportedly to include bin Mubarak's release, but the agreement quickly collapsed as Hadi and his ministers quit under rebel pressure.{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/yemen-violence/|agency=CNN|title=Yemen's President, Cabinet resign|date=23 January 2015|access-date=22 January 2015|archive-date=23 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123050113/http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/yemen-violence/|url-status=live}} He was reportedly released in Shabwa Governorate on 27 January, ten days after his kidnapping.{{cite news|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/01/houthis-free-top-aide-yemen-president-150127144552184.html|agency=Al Jazeera|title=Houthis free top aide to Yemen president|date=27 January 2015|accessdate=27 January 2015|archive-date=7 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907122126/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/01/houthis-free-top-aide-yemen-president-150127144552184.html|url-status=live}}
On 3 August 2015, he was appointed Yemeni Ambassador to the United States{{cite web|url=http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/yemens-ambassador-to-the-united-states-who-is-ahmed-awad-bin-mubarak-160119?news=858128|title=Yemen's Ambassador to the United States: Who Is Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak?|work=All Gov|access-date=6 February 2024|archive-date=1 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401075419/http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/yemens-ambassador-to-the-united-states-who-is-ahmed-awad-bin-mubarak-160119?news=858128|url-status=live}} and was also appointed as ambassador to the United Nations in 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240205-yemen-government-names-top-diplomat-as-new-premier |agency=France 24 |title=Yemen government names top diplomat as new premier |date=6 February 2024 |accessdate=6 February 2024 |archive-date=5 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205215236/https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240205-yemen-government-names-top-diplomat-as-new-premier |url-status=live }}
Prime Minister of Yemen
File:Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak and Valentina Matviyenko (28-02-2024).jpg's Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko in Moscow, 28 February 2024]]
On 5 February 2024, the internationally-recognized Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council appointed Bin Mubarak as Prime Minister, replacing Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed.{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/article/yemen-presidential-council-sacks-prime-minister-2af65a4e441b0547595031ca3b5da848 |work=Associated Press News |title=Yemen's presidential council sacks the prime minister |date=6 February 2024 |accessdate=6 February 2024 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206021734/https://apnews.com/article/yemen-presidential-council-sacks-prime-minister-2af65a4e441b0547595031ca3b5da848 |url-status=live }} He resigned on 3 May 2025, citing his inability to undertake "necessary decisions to reform the state institution, and execute the necessary Cabinet reshuffle".{{Cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/yemen-war-houthis-396ff367cfd3dd1866c5042f1abc882b |title=Yemen’s internationally recognized prime minister says he is resigning over a political dispute |access-date=3 May 2025 |website=AP News |date=3 May 2025 |language=en }}
References
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Category:Foreign ministers of Yemen
Category:Prime ministers of Yemen