Mohammad Shtayyeh
Mohammad Shtayyeh | |
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محمد اشتية | |
Shtayyeh in 2025 | |
| 3rd Prime Minister of Palestine | |
| In office 13 April 2019 – 31 March 2024 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Preceded by | Rami Hamdallah |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Mustafa |
| Minister of Interior | |
| In office 13 April 2019 – 1 January 2022 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Rami Hamdallah |
| Succeeded by | Ziad Hab al-Rih |
| Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs | |
| In office 13 April 2019 – 1 January 2022 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Youssef Ideiss |
| Succeeded by | Hatem al-Bakri |
| Minister of Public Works and Housing | |
| In office 19 May 2009 – 16 May 2012 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Prime Minister | Salam Fayyad |
| Preceded by | Mohamed Kamal Hassouna |
| Succeeded by | Maher Ghoneim |
| In office 24 February 2005 – 29 March 2006 | |
| President | Mahmoud Abbas |
| Prime Minister | Ahmed Qurei Nabil Shaath (acting) Ahmed Qurei |
| Preceded by | Abd al-Rahman Hamad |
| Succeeded by | Abd al-Rahman Zeidan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh 17 January 1958 Tell, Jordanian-administered West Bank, Palestine (present-day Tell, Palestine) |
| Party | Fatah |
| Education | Birzeit University (BA) University of Sussex (MA, PhD) |
Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh (Arabic: محمد اشتية; born 17 January 1958) is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Palestine from 2019 to 2024. On 26 February 2024, he and his government announced their resignation, remaining in office in a demissionary capacity until a new government was formed on 31 March 2024.
Elected to Fatah's Central Committee in the 2009 and 2016 elections, Shtayyeh is aligned with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Shtayyeh was named a minister of Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR), a $1.6 billion public investment fund, in 1996. He served as its director of administration and finance from 1994 to 1996.
Shtayyeh was a member of the Palestinian advance team at the Madrid Conference in 1991 and a member of the Palestinian negotiation delegation on subsequent occasions. He was elected minister of public works and housing for the Palestinian Authority in 2005 and 2009.