Hamad Ahmad Abd al-Latif Al-Hamad

Background

Al-Hamad, Hamad Ahmad Abd al-Latif was born in 1936.

Education

Student, Claremont College. Student, Harvard University.

Career

Member delegate to United Nations, 1962. Director-general Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, 1963-1981. Director Kuwait Investment Company, 1963-1971, managing director, 1965-1974.

Executive director Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, 1972-1981, director-general, chairman board directors, since 1985. Minister finance and planning Government of Kuwait, 1981-1983. Chair Kuwait Prefabricated Building Company, 1965-1978, United Bank of Kuwait, London, 1966-1984, Compagnie Arabe et International d'Investissements, Luxembourg, 1973-1981.

Member United Nations committee for development planning, 1982-1991, chair, 1987. Member International Finance Corporation Banking Advisory Board Group, since 1987, Advisory Group on Finance Flows for Africa, 1987-1988, South Commission, 1987-1989, Group of Ten, since 1987, World Bank's Private Sector Development Review Group, since 1988, United Nations Panel for Public Hearings on Activities of Transnat. Corps. in South Africa and Namibia, 1989-1992.

Board trustees Corporate Property Investors, New York, since 1975, Stockholm Environmental Institute, 1989-1992, Commission Global Governance, since 1992.

Achievements

• Hamad Ahmad Abd al-Latif First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Hamad has been listed as a noteworthy monetary fund executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member governing body Institute Development Studies, Sussex, United Kingdom, 1975-1987. Member independent commission International Development Issues Brandt Commission, 1976-1979. Board directors international Institute Environmental and Development, London, 1976-1980.

Connections

Married; 4 children.