16 Facts About Mohammad Shtayyeh

Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh is a Palestinian politician, academic, and economist who served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority from 2019 to 2024.

Mohammad Shtayyeh was named a minister of Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction, a $1.6 billion public investment fund, in 1996.

Mohammad Shtayyeh served as its director of administration and finance from 1994 to 1996.

Mohammad 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.

Mohammad Shtayyeh was elected minister of public works and housing for the Palestinian Authority in 2005 and 2008.

Mohammad Shtayyeh graduated from Birzeit University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics in 1981.

Mohammad Shtayyeh then attended the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom, receiving his doctorate in economic development in 1989.

Mohammad Shtayyeh served as a professor of economic development from 1989 to 1991 at Birzeit University.

Mohammad Shtayyeh later became dean of student affairs there until 1993.

From 1995 until 1998, Mohammad Shtayyeh held the position of Secretary-General of the Central Elections Commission of Palestine.

Since 2005, Mohammad Shtayyeh has been the Palestinian governor for the Islamic Bank.

Mohammad Shtayyeh was appointed prime minister in March 2019, and took office on 13 April.

When heads of state from the 55-member African Union met for a two-day summit in February 2022, Mohammad Shtayyeh urged the African Union to remove Israel's observer status.

On 26 February 2024, in the midst of the ongoing Gaza war and its spillover in the West Bank, Mohammad Shtayyeh announced he would resign, citing dissatisfaction with the current situation in the region and the need for "new governmental and political arrangements" as well as the full extension of Palestinian Authority control over the Palestinian territories.

Mohammad Shtayyeh further underlined unity and consensus between different Palestinian groups had become more urgent in the light of the ongoing genocide and starvation in the Gaza Strip.

Mohammad Shtayyeh remained in office as caretaker prime minister until President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Mohammad Mustafa as his replacement.