Speaker > Biography
Education |
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| 1958 - 1960: Claremont Mckenna College, Claremont, California - International Affairs (Honors 1960). 1960 - 1962: Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Science-International Affairs Programme. |
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Professional Experience |
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| 1962 - 1963 | Served as a member of the Kuwait delegation to the United Nations during Kuwait's application for admission to the UN membership. | |
| 1963 - 1965 | Director, Kuwait Investment Company. | |
| 1963 - 1981 | Director General, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. | |
| 1963 - 1981 | Director, The South & Arabian Gulf Society (Educational & Philanthropic). | |
| 1965 - 1974 | Managing Director, Kuwait Investment Company. | |
| 1965 - 1978 | Chairman, Kuwait Prefabricated building Company. | |
| 1966 - 1981 | Chairman the United Bank of Kuwait, Ltd., London. | |
| 1967 - 1981 | Director, The Assistance Authority for the Gulf and Southern Arabia. | |
| 1967 - To date | Trustee, Arab Planning Institute. | |
| 1972 - 1981 | Executive Director, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. | |
| 1973 - 1981 | Chairman, Compagnie Arabe et Internationale D'Investissements, Luxembourg. | |
| 1974 - 1981 | Trustee, Jordan University, Amman, Jordan. | |
| 1974 - 1983 | Member of the Joint Ministerial Committee of the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF ( Development Committee). | |
| 1975 - 1981 | Member of the Board of Trustees, Corporate Property Investors, New York. | |
| 1975 - 1987 | Member of Governing Body, the Institute of Development Studies , Sussex, England. | |
| 1976 - 1982 | Member, Brandt Commission. | |
| 1976 - 1989 | Deputy Chairman of International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London. | |
| 1976 - 1978 | Member of the Visiting Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. | |
| 1980 - 1987 | Member of the Board of Trustees, Claremont Mckenna College, Claremont, California. | |
| 1980 - 1990 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the World Scout Foundation, Stockholm. | |
| 1981 - 1983 | Minister of Finance and Minister of Planning, Kuwait. | |
| 1982 - 1991 | Member of the United Nation Committee for Development Planning. Elected Chairman 1987- New York |
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| 1984 - 1992 | Member of the Board of Trustees - Vienna Development Institute - Vienna - Austria. | |
| 1984 - To date | Member of the Board of Trustees, Corporate Property Investors, New York. | |
| 1985 - 1989 | Member of the Board of Trustees - Kuwait University. | |
| 1985 - To date | Director General/ Chairman of the Board of Directors, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. | |
| 1986 - 1988 | Member of the Board of Directors of the BEIJER Institute ( of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). | |
| 1987-1991 | Member of the Board of Trustees World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Helsinki | |
| 1987 - To date | Member of the IFC Banking Advisory Group (International Finance Corporation of the World Bank). Washington D.C. | |
| 1987 - 1988 | Member of the UN Advisory Group on Financial Flows for Africa. | |
| 1987 - 1989 | Member of the South Commission | |
| 1987 - 1988 | Member of the Advicory Group of Ten at the African Development Bank - Abidjan | |
| 1987 - 1988 | Member of the World Bank's Private Sector Development Review Group. | |
| 1989 - 1994 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Thailand Development Research Institute Foundation Bangkok | |
| 1989 - 1992 | Member of Board Trustees of the Stockholm Environment Institute. Stockholm | |
| 1991 - To date | Member of the Board of Trustees South Center Geneva. | |
| 1992 - 1994 | Member of the Commission on Global Governance. | |
| 1992 - To date | Member of the Board of Kuwait Investment Authority. | |
| 1992- To date | Member of the Advisory Council for Middle East and North Africa Region - The World Bank - Washington D.C. | |
| 1993 - To date | Trustee, Green Cross International. | |
| 1994- To date | Trustee, The Earth Council - Costa Rica | |
| 1994 - 1996 | Chairman, Development Committee Task Force on Multilateral Development Banks. | |
| 1994 - To date | Member of The Higher Council of Education-Kuwait. | |
| 1995 - To date | Trustee, International Institute for Strategic Studies - London. | |
| 1995 - To date | Member of International Advisory Board on Foreign Relations - New York. | |
| 1995 - To date | Trustee, The International Crisis Group. | |
| 1995 - To date | Member of the Advisory Council of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies - the University of Chicago. | |
| 1995 - To date | Member of the Advisory Council of The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton University. | |
| 1996 - To date | Member of the Board , The International Investor - Kuwait | |
| 1997 - To date | Member of the Board of The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS) - Tokyo. | |
