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Muhammad Ibrahim Muhammad Shtayyeh, nicknamed Abu Ibrahim (born January 17, 1958 in Tal) is a Palestinian politician and economist. He was elected as a member of the Fatah Central Committee in 2009 and was re-elected in the Seventh Congress in 2016. He also served as Minister of Public Works and Housing, and Minister of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction. He holds a doctorate in economic development from the University of Sussex in Britain. He also worked as a professor and dean at Birzeit University and has many publications in economics and politics.
On March 10, 2019, he was appointed to head the new government, as Rami Hamdallah’s government had submitted its resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas 40 days earlier.
Educational attainment
1976-1981, Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration from Birzeit University.
1983, Diploma in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, Britain.
1985-1989, PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, Britain.
Practical experience
Subscribe Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh in many politically and developmentally important initiatives, decisions, and positions, including the work of Dr. Shtayyeh was Minister of Public Works and Housing and Chairman of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction. Thus, most of the development programs and reconstruction programs for Palestine were entrusted to him. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Development Fund and the Palestinian Housing Council. He is a member of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid negotiations, the Washington discussions, and the economic negotiations with Israel. He is a member of the Interim Committee. To coordinate aid to the Palestinian people and the advisory group for donor countries. As Governor of Palestine at the Islamic Development Bank, he supervised the financing of thousands of development and economic projects.
Among his other political activities, he headed the Palestinian delegation to the multilateral negotiations related to regional economic cooperation (REDWG), which dealt with the issues of trade, finance, infrastructure, and tourism in the Middle East region. In addition, Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh in the negotiations that took place with Israel regarding the legislative elections in Palestine in his capacity as Secretary General of the Palestinian Elections Commission, which supervised the presidential and legislative elections that took place in January 1996. He was a member of the final negotiating delegation, but he resigned on 11/5/2013.
On the other hand, the work of Dr. Shtayyeh is an editor at Al-Shaab newspaper in Jerusalem.
In March 2002, Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh established the “Club Monaco”, which is headed by Prince René and became a member of it. This informal club includes individuals and figures with political weight in the world, who met in search of new ways to promote peace and stability among the peoples of the region. The club believes that the positive development of the political situation and economic relations among the nations of the Eastern Mediterranean and finding a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are matters that contribute to the restoration of peace. And by virtue of his position as governor on the Board of Trustees of the Arab Planning Institute / Kuwait, he has contributed to developing development and training visions for many Arab countries that benefit from the programs Institute. He also participated in the periodic meetings of the International Council of Elders, which was chaired by Nelson Mandela.
In December 2002, Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh is a member of the Global Creativity Foundation, which focuses on global cooperation through scientific economic cooperation. Most of the members of this institution are Nobel Prize laureates.
The following is a list of the most important positions he held:
1980-1981 Editor of the Arabic Topics Section in Al-Shaab Daily Newspaper (Jerusalem)
1981-1983 Research Assistant at Birzeit University Research Center
1990 Member of the Technical and Development Cooperation Corporation (TDC), which was merged with other institutions to establish the Palestine Development Fund (pdf)
1990-1992 Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Birzeit University
1991-2000 Founder and board member of the Palestinian Housing Council
1992-1994 Dean of Student Affairs at Birzeit University
1993 Member of the steering committee of the technical committees of the PLO. in Jerusalem
1993-now Member of the Interim Committee for Coordinating Aid to the Palestinian People and Member of the Advisory Group of Donor Countries to Palestine
1994-1995 Head of the Administration and Finance Department at PECDAR
1995 Head of the Palestinian delegation to multiple negotiations on regional economic cooperation (trade, finance, infrastructure, and tourism). Chairman of the Regional Tourism Committee from which the Eastern Mediterranean Travel and Tourism Agency (MEMTTA) emerged.
1996 Negotiated with Israel the chapter related to the Palestinian Authority elections
1996: Secretary General of the Palestinian Elections Commission, which supervised the first presidential and legislative elections on January 20, 1996.
1996-2003 Director General of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction - PECDAR
1998 Member of the Palestinian National Council.
1997 Founder of the Palestinian Center for Regional Studies in Al-Bireh - Ramallah
2001 President of the National Institute for Information Technology in Ramallah.
2003 He became Minister of the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction - PECDAR
2005-2007 Minister of Public Works and Housing
2006 Governor of the Islamic Development Bank for Palestine
2008-2009 Minister of Public Works and Housing
--2009 Member of the Fatah Central Committee
2014 Member of the Palestinian Central Council
2016 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Research Center MTF.
March 10, 2019, he was assigned to form the eighteenth Palestinian government.
April 13, 2019, he was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Eighteenth State of Palestine.
Social activities
Member of the Information Technology Advisory Board.
Member of the ministerial committee supervising Bethlehem
Member of the ministerial committee responsible for preparing the development plan for Palestine in 1999-2000
President of the Palestinian Economists Association
Member of the General Authority of the Palestinian Development Fund
Chairman of the National Committee for Voluntary Work
General Secretary of the Teachers Union at Birzeit University 1983-1984
Member of the National Committee to Support Palestinian Political Prisoners
Member of the steering committee supervising the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations on final solution issues
Secretary General of the Central Elections Commission 1996
Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Arab American University in Jenin
Founding member of the Palestinian Housing Council, 1993
Founding member of the Palestinian Center for Small Enterprises, 1992
Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Al-Quds University
2002 Member of the Club of Monaco.
Member of the Fatah Central Committee
Head of the relief campaign for our people in Syria.
Conferences
Socialist Youth Congress, December 1987, Havana - Cuba
United Nations Conference for the Protection of the Rights of the Palestinian People, April 1988, Vienna - Austria
Conference on the Palestinian Intifada, May 1988, New Zealand
A roundtable discussion of solutions to the Palestinian issue, Chatham Palace, 1988, London
Conference on the right to self-determination, Ghent University, 1990, Belgium
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Kennedy School, Harvard University, 1992, United States
The Future of Social Science Research in the Middle East, 1993, Ford Foundation, Cairo
Arab Union of Non-Governmental Organizations, Tunisia, 1993
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Conference, 1994, Casablanca, Morocco
Middle Eastern Economy, Strasbourg, 1994
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Conference, 1995, Cairo
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Economic Conference, 1996, Amman
Institutionalizing Agricultural Policies in Palestine, Bethlehem, UNDP-IFAD, 1996
The Middle East Peace Process, Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, IMSAM, Greece, 1997, 1998
Annual World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
Annual Conferences on Europe and the Middle East, Bertelsmann Foundation, Kronberg, Germany, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
Middle East Business Conference, 1998, Geneva, Switzerland
Cooperation in the Middle East, University of Marseille - France, 1998
A panel discussion on the relationship between Europe and the Middle East, Brussels, Belgium, 1998
Palestinian-Israeli Economic Protocol, Brussels, Belgium, 1998
European Conference on Socialist Subversion, Strasbourg, 1998
Conference on Palestinians in exile, Ramallah, Ministry of Planning, 1998, 1999
Europe and Palestine, Ramallah, Palestinian Center for Regional Studies, 1998, 1999
Economic Summit, Davos, Switzerland, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Multilateral Discussions, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Y2K Conference, Beta, Ramallah, 1999
Information Technology in Palestine, Ramallah, Grand Park Hotel, 1999
Permanent Economic Status between Palestine and Israel, World Bank, Washington, 1999
Economic Summit, Davos, Switzerland, 2000
Steering Committee for Multilateral Negotiations, Moscow, 2000
International Aid: The Palestine Experience, Bosnia and East Timor, FAFO, Oslo, 2000
The relationship of civil society organizations with the government, Ramallah, 2000
The role of civil society in development in Palestine, Birzeit University, 2000
United Nations conference on opportunities for Palestinian economic development and the peace process, Cairo, 2000
Conflict and Possibilities for Peace in the Middle East, Wilton Park, Britain, 2000
Ideas to revitalize the Barcelona Process, Cattelan Foundation, Barcelona, December 2001
National Conference for Human Development, Birzeit University, June 2002
Searching for a Solution: The Dilemma of Regional Peace, Berkle Center for International Relations, University of Los Angeles, May 2002
Ending the Confrontation, United Nations Public Information Service, Denmark, July 2002
World Bank Annual Meeting, Washington, October 2002.
Monaco Conference, Monaco, March 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006.
Monaco Global Summit, Monte Carlo, December 2002
Europe, America and the Eastern Mediterranean, Aspen Foundation, Barcelona, November 2002
The international, regional and local consequences of the war on Iraq - Ibrahim Abu Al-Lughod Institute, Birzeit University - June 2003
Monaco Club Annual Conference 2004
Annual Conference of the World Economic Forum - Jordan - May 2004
Key Conference on the American Initiative for Middle East Reform - Ramallah 2004
United Nations Conference on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People - Cape Town, South Africa - June 2004
Tokyo Conference on Confidence Building Measures - Tokyo - July 2004
Monaco Club Annual Conference 2005
United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Nairobi, Kenya, 2005
AHLC Donor Countries Meeting, London, December 2005
Conference of Arab Housing Ministers, Cairo, 2005
Conference of Arab Ministers of Labor, Rabat, Morocco, 2006
Oxford conference
Monaco Club Annual Conference 2008 2009 2010 2011
Conference on conflict in the Middle East, Türkiye 2008
Middle East Peace Conference, Italy 2008
Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem, 2008
Investment Conference in Nablus, 2008
World Bank Annual Meetings, Washington 2008
Tokyo Conference on Confidence Building Measures - Tokyo - September 2008
Conference on Conflict in the Middle East, Geneva 2009
Monaco Conference - 2009
International Conference to Support the Palestinian Economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza, Sharm El-Sheikh 2009)
United Nations Conference - The Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Cairo 2009
Annual Meetings of the Islamic Development Bank, Turkmenistan 2009
Compositions
Muhammad Shtayyeh. Ein Karem: a destroyed Palestinian village. Birzeit University, Research Center, 1982. (In Arabic)
Muhammad Shtayyeh. Annaba: a destroyed Palestinian village. Birzeit University, Research Center, 1982. (in Arabic)....
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