Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak | |
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أحمد عوض بن مبارك | |
.jpg) Mubarak in 2024 | |
| 11thPrime Minister of Yemen | |
| In office 5 February 2024 – 3 May 2025 | |
| President | Rashad al-Alimi |
| Preceded by | Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed |
| Succeeded by | Salem Saleh bin Braik |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen | |
| In office 18 December 2020 – 26 March 2024 | |
| President | Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi Rashad al-Alimi |
| Preceded by | Mohammed Al-Hadhrami |
| Succeeded by | Shaya Mohsin al-Zindani |
| General Secretary of theNational Dialogue Conference | |
| In office June 2013 – 2014(as General Secretary of the Preparatory Committee of the NDC) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1968 (age 56–57) |
| Alma mater | University of Baghdad |
Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak (born 1968) is aYemeni politician who served as theprime minister of Yemen from 2024 to 2025. Before his appointment as Prime Minister, he was the formerForeign Minister of Yemen,[1] and before that he served asAmbassador of Yemen to the United States.
Mubarak was born in 1968 inAden. He has three children.[2] His father was abusinessman.
He received a PhD in business administration fromBaghdad University[3] and is a professor atSana'a University, where he heads the business administration center, which is cooperatively administrated by Sanaa University andMaastricht 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.
AtScience 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.
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.[2] He was then director of the president's office.[3]
After the Saudi-backed Yemeni government bombed the north of the country, theHouthis, whose traditional homeland is in the north, near the Saudi border, protested in the capitalSana'a. Armed protesters took over government areas. This uprising led to Prime MinisterMohammed Basindwa's resignation. Bin Mubarak was promoted from Chief of Staff and appointed Prime Minister by PresidentAbd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi despite Houthi opposition, citing a lack of an official agreement resolving the conflict.[4] However, Ahmad withdrew from the post on 9 October 2014.
Bin Mubarak was abducted by gunmen believed to be loyal to former presidentAli Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on 17 January 2015.[5] 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.[6] He was reportedly released inShabwa Governorate on 27 January, ten days after his kidnapping.[7]
On 3 August 2015, he was appointed Yemeni Ambassador to the United States[8] and was also appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 2018.[9]
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On 5 February 2024, the internationally-recognized YemeniPresidential Leadership Council appointed Bin Mubarak as Prime Minister, replacingMaeen Abdulmalik Saeed.[10] He resigned on 3 May 2025, citing his inability to undertake "necessary decisions to reform the state institution, and execute the necessary Cabinet reshuffle".[11]
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| North Yemen (1962–1990) | |
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| South Yemen (1969–1990) | |
| Republic of Yemen (1990–) | |
