Ismail Shafeeu

Ismail Shafeeu (left) and Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee (2006)

Ismail Shafeeu (* 15. May 1955 in Malé ) is a former politician of the Maldives , who was minister several times.

Life

Ismail Shafeeu is a son of the diplomat and politician Ahmed Zaki , who was the last Prime Minister of the Maldives between 1972 and 1975, and his wife Fathimath Ibrahim Didi. After attending school, he studied economics at Macquarie University in Australia , which he completed in 1976 with a Bachelor of Economics (B.Econ.). He then entered the civil service and was initially professor at the Majeediyya School from 1977 to 1978 , the first state school in the Maldives founded in 1927. He then worked for the Ministry of Provincial Affairs between 1978 and 1980, where he was most recently Senior Undersecretary in 1980. After briefly serving as director of the airport administration MAA (Maldives Airport Authority) in 1980, he was Deputy Director General of the National Planning Agency ( NPA ) between 1980 and 1982 . From 1982 to 1983 he was Senior Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Planning and Development and from 1983 to 1989 Director of the Planning Department in the Ministry of Planning and Environment. During this time he was also the holder of the fellowship named after the US politician Hubert H. Humphrey at Boston University from 1984 to 1985 and, most recently, from 1989 to 1990 Deputy Minister for Planning and Environment.

In 1990 Shafeeu was appointed to the government by President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom for the first time, and initially served as tourism minister between 1990 and 1991. He then served as Minister for Planning and the Environment from 1991 to 1996 and as Chairman of the Maldives Youth Center between 1992 and 1993. After a government reshuffle, he was also Minister for Human Resources from 1993 to 1996 and then Minister for Transport and Communications between 1996 and 1998. After another cabinet reshuffle, he served as Interior Minister from 1998 to 2002 and also as Minister for Housing and Environment between 1998 and 2002. After President Gayoom reformed the government again in 2002, he served as Minister of Education between 2002 and 2005 and was Minister of Defense and National Security from September 1, 2004 until November 11, 2008, when President Gayoom ended his term in office. He was also committed to the Active Volunteers for Environmental and Social Harmony and Improvement .

From the marriage of Ismail Shafeeu to Aishath Nadira, the daughter Fathimath Nabreesa Shafeeu and the son Ahmed Samuel Shafeeu emerged, who was interim Minister of the Interior in 2013.

Web links

• Entry in Prabook
• Entry in Rulers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ahmed Zaki (Prabook)
2. ↑ Ahmed Zaki (Rulers)
3. ↑ Maldives: September 1, 2004 (Rulers)
4. ↑ Maldives: May 11, 2013 (Rulers)