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Although born into the ruling Sabah family, which now numbers about 1,000 extended relatives, Khalifa worked his way up through various jobs in the Finance and Oil ministries. Over the past 12 years he has held each of those crucial Cabinet portfolios several times, and was once minister of both simultaneously...
Until he was 12, Khalifa attended elementary school in Baghdad, where his Iraqi-born mother went to live after her husband died. Khalifa learned English at a private academy in Cairo, and like every Kuwaiti who wanted a college education before Kuwait University was inaugurated in 1966, went abroad to study. Before being graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from San Francisco State University, Khalifa spent two years at Berkeley, where his chemistry lab partner was Mario Savio, the radical student leader who founded the Free Speech Movement. "To be at Berkeley in the '60s was wonderful," says Khalifa...
Pegged a comer early on, Khalifa worked for the Finance Ministry between graduate studies in London and Beirut, often jetting home weekly for meetings. Before he was 30, Khalifa was representing Kuwait at important OPEC meetings. "I remember once when I went to Baghdad to explain our views on oil prices," says Khalifa. "After I finished my presentation, I was called to another building to see Saddam. Before I could go through it all again, Saddam said, 'Khalifa, your explanation is not valid.' There had been no time for anyone at the earlier meeting to have briefed him, but Saddam...
...Khalifa who designed many of Kuwait's successful investment strategies, and Khalifa who reorganized Kuwait's oil industry following the government's 1975 takeover of the Kuwait Oil Co. -- a joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is Khalifa who is at the center of his country's most ambitious effort: the attempt to reinvent Kuwait. If implemented in its entirety, the intricate and politically tricky plan could transform the demography, character and economy of what everyone involved is calling New Kuwait...
...severe but not an impediment -- and planning and purchasing for the future are already well under way. Assisted by about 50 U.S. Army civil-affairs reservists, the - cream of Kuwait's ministerial employees have been meeting quietly in a downtown Washington office building for six weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been a World Bank executive director since 1984. Every conceivable need is being addressed. Enough material to equip eight hospitals and a score...