His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, issued an Amiri Order on Saturday to appoint Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah as Crown Prince. Sheikh Sabah was born in Kuwait in 1953 and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Kuwait University in 1977. He began his career when he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978 as a diplomatic attaché, remaining there until 1995, during which he moved between various departments within the ministry.
In 1995, he was appointed as his country's ambassador to Saudi Arabia and as Kuwait’s representative to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation from 1995 to 1998. In 1998, Sheikh Sabah embarked on a new experience away from diplomacy, being appointed as the head of the National Security Apparatus with the rank of minister. He then served as Minister of Social Affairs and Labor in 2006, and then as Minister of Information in 2008.
Sheikh Sabah later returned to diplomacy, taking on the role of Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2011. In 2012, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs. He was reappointed several times in the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2012 and 2016, during repeated government formations and dissolutions.
In 2019, the late Amir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, chose him to be the Prime Minister and tasked him with proposing members of the new government, marking the first government he was commissioned to form. The following year, in 2020, the previous Amir, Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, selected him to form a second government under his leadership. Throughout his long diplomatic and governmental career, Sheikh Sabah Khaled has received several awards, including the Order of King Abdulaziz of the First Class in 1998 and the Order of the Star of Jerusalem from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2018.
