Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour

His Excellency
Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour
His Excellency Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour
عبد العزيز بن حبتور
	Bin Habtour in 2014
Prime Minister of Yemen
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 October 2016; Disputed by Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak; (Presidential Leadership Council)
President	Saleh Ali al-Sammad; Mahdi al-Mashat
Deputy	Jalal al-Rowaishan; Akram Abdullah Attaya; Hussein Abdullah Mkabuli
Preceded by	Talal Aklan (Acting)
Governor of Aden Governorate
	In office; 25 December 2014 – 20 July 2015
Deputy	Nayef al-Bakri
Preceded by	Waheed Ali Rashid
Succeeded by	Nayef al-Bakri
Personal details
Born	8 August 1955 (age 68); Ghareer, Aden Protectorate
Political party	General People's Congress
Children	5
Alma mater	University of Aden; Berlin School of Economics and Law; Leipzig University

Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن حبتور; born 8 August 1955) is a Yemeni politician who has been the Incumbent prime minister of Yemen since 4 October 2016. He also served as Governor of Aden during the Houthi takeover in Yemen. He is a member of the General People's Congress, sitting on its permanent committee since 1995.^[1] An ally of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, he condemned the 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état^[2] and received the deposed leader after his flight from the Houthi-controlled capital of Sanaa on 21 February 2015.^[3] He is also a vocal opponent of the separatist movement in the former South Yemen, saying the movement is too fractured and small to achieve its goals.^[4]^[5]

In October 2016, bin Habtour was appointed as Prime Minister in the Houthi-led parallel government.

Bin Habtour served as Deputy Minister of Education from 2001 to 2008 and subsequently as Rector of the University of Aden.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of Aden. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ "Southern Yemen moves towards secession as Houthis call for reconciliation". Asharq al-Awsat. 28 January 2015. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ "Yemen leader meets governors after fleeing capital". Agence France-Presse. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ Al-Arashi, Fakhri (15 February 2015). "Aden's Governor Says Secession Impossible". National Yemen. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
^ Mukhashaf, Mohammed (16 February 2015). "Forces loyal to president seize parts of Yemen's economic hub". Reuters. Retrieved 22 February 2015.