Salam Fayyad
Sign in to saveAlso known as Salam K. Fayyad
Palestinian politician, Former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority under President Abbas
Film & TV
Known for
- State 194 — Himself2012
via TMDB
Key facts
- President
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Preceded by
- Himself (as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority)
- Succeeded by
- Rami Hamdallah
- Prime minister
- Himself
- Born
- ( 1952-04-12 ) 12 April 1952 (age 74) , Nablus or Deir al-Ghusun , Jordanian-administered West Bank, Palestine
- Party
- Third Way (2005–present)
- Other political affiliations
- Independent (before 2005)
- Alma mater
- American University of Beirut , St. Edward's University , University of Texas at Austin
- Occupation
- Politician, economist
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Palestine
- Place of birth
- Deir al-Ghusun
- Sibling
- Manar Fayyad
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Prime Minister of the State of Palestine
- Educated at
- St. Edward's University
- Employer
- International Monetary Fund
- Political party
- Third Way
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Image
- Salam Fayyad (cropped).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Salam Fayyad
- date of birth
- 1952-04-12
- birth name
- سلام "محمد خالد" عبد الله خضر
- name in native language
- سلام فياض
- ancestral home
- Deir al-Ghusun
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Salam Fayyad (Arabic: سلام فياض, romanized: Salām Fayāḍ; born 12 April 1952) is a Palestinian politician and economist who served as the first prime minister of Palestine from January 2013 until his resignation in June of that same year. He was previously the fourth prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority from 2007 until the post was replaced in 2013. He was minister of finance from June to November 2005 and from March 2007 to May 2012.
Fayyad resigned from the cabinet in November 2005 to run as founder and leader of the new Third Way party for the legislative elections of 2006. The party was not successful, and Fayyad returned as Finance Minister in the March 2007 Unity Government. Fayyad's first appointment as Prime Minister on 15 June 2007, which was justified by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", was not confirmed by the Palestinian Legislative Council. His successor, Rami Hamdallah, was named on 2 June 2013.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salam Fayyad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.