Mohammad Mustafa (economist)

Mohammad Mustafa
محمد مصطفى
Mustafa in 2013
Prime Minister of Palestine
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 March 2024
President	Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by	Mohammad Shtayyeh
Minister of Economy
In office 6 June 2013 – 31 July 2015
Prime Minister	Rami Hamdallah
Preceded by	Bassem Khoury
Succeeded by	Abeer Odeh
Personal details
Born	(1954-08-26) 26 August 1954 (age 69) Kafr Sur, Jordanian West Bank
Political party	Independent
Education	University of Baghdad (BS) George Washington University (MS, PhD)

Mohammad Mustafa (Arabic: محمد عبد الله محمد مصطفى "السفاريني", born August 26, 1954) is a Palestinian economist and politician who is the current prime minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He previously served as the Chairman of the Board of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), Senior Economic Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and an Independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.^[1] Previously, he had served as Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine (15th and 16th governments; 2013–2014) and as Minister of National Economy of Palestine (16th government, 2014).^[2]

Mustafa has international experience with government, global institutions, and academia, from spending around 15 years at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. Mustafa spent two years as economic advisor to the Government of Kuwait on economic reform and two years as advisor to the Public Investment Fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mustafa also taught as a visiting professor at his alma mater, the George Washington University.