predecessor party office primeminister birth_date term_start article_title name
mustafa jassem al-shamali islamic salafi alliance -lrb- affiliation -rrb- oil minister jaber al-mubarak al-hamad al-sabah 1958 january 2014 ali al-omair
 ali al-omair
ali al-omair

ali al-omair -lrb- born 1958 -rrb- is a kuwaiti politician .
since january 2014 he serves as oil minister in the cabinet of jaber al-mubarak al-hamad al-sabah , he succeeded mustafa jassem al-shamali .
he was member of the kuwaiti national assembly , representing the third district .
born in 1958 , al-omair obtained a phd in chemistry and worked as a professor before being elected to the national assembly in 2006 .
while political parties are technically illegal in kuwait , al-omair affiliates with the islamic salafi alliance party .
