Emir

Age
85
Country From
Kuwait
House

Al Sabah

Length (As of November 23 2022)

2 years, 51 days

Name

Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Name of Heir to the Throne

Hereditary and elective (presumably Mishal Al-Ahmad)

Net Worth
$600,000,000.00
Notes (Bio)

Nawaf is one of the most senior members of the House of Sabah. At 25, he was appointed governor of Hawalli on 21 February 1962 and held the post until 19 March 1978. He was Minister of Interior from 1978 to 26 January 1988, when he was appointed Minister of Defense. Following the liberation of Kuwait in the Gulf War, Nawaf was appointed the acting minister of labor and social affairs on 20 April 1991 and held the post until 17 October 1992. Following his appointment to the cabinet in 1991, a group of senior military officers sent a letter to Jaber al-Ahmad, the Emir at the time, demanding that Nawaf, the minister of defense during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and Salem al-Sabah, the minister of interior during the invasion, be dismissed from the government and investigated for Kuwait's lack of military preparedness on the day of the invasion. As a result, Nawaf was not appointed to a cabinet-level position until 2003.

Since
September 29, 2020
Spouse's Name

Sharifa Sulaiman Al-Jassim

Spouse's Wiki Link

N/A

Type
Executive
Year Born
1937