Salam Fayyad

Salam Fayyad
سلام فياض
Fayyad in 2008
Prime Minister of the State of Palestine
In office 6 January 2013 – 6 June 2013
President	Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Rami Hamdallah
Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
In office 15 June 2007 – 6 January 2013 (Disputed with Ismail Haniyeh)
President	Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by	Ismail Haniyeh[a]
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Foreign Affairs Minister
In office June 2007 – July 2007
President	Mahmoud Abbas
Preceded by	Ziad Abu Amr
Succeeded by	Riyad al-Maliki
Finance Minister
In office June 2002 – November 2005
President	Yasser Arafat
Preceded by	Mohammad Zuhdi Nashashibi
Succeeded by	Ahmad Qurei
Personal details
Born	(1952-04-12) 12 April 1952 (age 72) or 1951 (age 72–73) Nablus or Deir al-Ghusun, Jordanian West Bank
Political party	Third Way
Alma mater	American University of Beirut St Edward's University University of Texas, Austin

Salam Fayyad (Arabic: سلام فياض, Salām Fayāḍ; born 1951 or 12 April 1952) is a Palestinian politician and economist who served as the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and the finance minister. He was Finance Minister from June 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2007 to May 2012. Fayyad was prime minister between June 2007 and June 2013.

Fayyad resigned from the cabinet in November 2005 to run as founder and leader of the new Third Way party for the legislative elections of 2006. The party was not successful, and Fayyad returned as Finance Minister in the March 2007 Unity Government. Fayyad's first appointment as Prime Minister on 15 June 2007, which was justified by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", was not confirmed by the Palestinian Legislative Council.^{[citation needed]} His successor, Rami Hamdallah, was named on 2 June 2013.^[1]

Fayyad is a visiting senior scholar and the Daniella Lipper Coules '95 Distinguished Visitor in Foreign Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.^[2] He is widely known for introducing various reforms that improved the Palestinian economy.

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