Mohamad Khadim Al Wajih
Yemeni politician and economist
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Muhammad Al-Khadam Ghalib Al-Wajih was a Yemeni politician and cabinet minister.
He was born in 1940 in Zabid.[1] He is a member of a prominent family from Tihama.[2] He was educated in Aden 1948-1960 and in UK 1960-1965. He has an economics degree from University of London.[1]
He was director of Yemen Petroleum Company in 1971 in North Yemen.[1] He was appointed minister of agriculture from 1975 to 1979.[1] He was appointed as minister of education in March 1979. He was appointed as minister of finance in 1986.[1] He was appointed as minister of communications in 1988.[1] After Yemeni unification, he was appointed minister of civil service from May 1991 to June 1995. Then he was appointed minister of petroleum and minerals from 1996 to 2000.[1]
He died on 20 April 2016 while receiving treatment at a hospital in Amman.[3]
