Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori is an
Emirati engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...
who was the Minister of the Economy of the
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
from 2008 until 2020.
Biography
Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori holds a
bachelor's degree
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in
industrial engineering
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and management systems from
Arizona State University
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.
Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori was Minister of Communication (...-2004), Minister of Transport and Communication (2004-2006), and Minister of Governmental Sector Development (2006-2008).
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Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansoori was appointed Minister of the Economy in a cabinet reshuffle on 17 February 2008. Part of his program as Minister is to reduce the country's dependence on oil revenues. In March 2015, the Ministry of Economy allowed full ownership of foreign companies in the country's free zones. In November 2018, he laid out his strategy to strengthen ties between the UAE and ]Latin America
Latin America or
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n countries, while maintaining a strong bilateral trade strategy with China.
By virtue of his ministership, he is also the Chairman of UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was established in 1996 by Federal Cabinet Decree (Law 4) to regulate Civil Aviation and provide designated aviation services with emphasis on safety and security and to ...
.
See also
* Economy of the United Arab Emirates
The economy of the United Arab Emirates (or UAE) is the 5th largest in the Middle East (after Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt), with a gross domestic product (GDP) of US$501 billion (AED 1.84 trillion) in 2022.
The UAE economy is heavily ...
* UAE vision 2021
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (Middle East, The Middle East). It is ...
References
External links
Official biography
Living people
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering alumni
Emirati industrial engineers
Emirati politicians
Economy ministers of the United Arab Emirates
Transport ministers of the United Arab Emirates
Communication ministers of the United Arab Emirates
Year of birth missing (living people)
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