Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
سالم عبدالله الجابر الصباح
Official portrait, 2022
6th Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 16 October 2022 – 17 January 2024
Prime Minister	Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
Preceded by	Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah
Succeeded by	Abdullah Al-Yahya
Ambassador of Kuwait to the United States
In office 10 October 2001 – 23 June 2022
Prime Minister	Saad Al-Salim Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Preceded by	Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
Succeeded by	Al-Zain Sabah Al-Naser Al-Sabah
Personal details
Born	(1957-09-24) 24 September 1957 (age 67) Kuwait City, Kuwait
Spouse	Sheikha Rima al-Sabah
Education	American University of Beirut (BSc)(MSc)

Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Arabic: سالم عبدالله الجابر الصباح, romanized: Sālim ʿAbdullāh al-Jābir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ: born 24 September 1957) is a member of the Kuwaiti royal family who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023. He previously served as ambassador of Kuwait to the United States of America from June 2001 until May 2022.^[1][2]

A member of the ruling House of Sabah, Salem was born on September 24, 1957.^[3]

In 1981, he received a Bachelor of Arts in political studies from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. There, he met his future wife, Rima.^{[citation needed]}

Ambassador Al-Sabah has also been the ambassador of Kuwait to Korea (1998), minister plenipotentiary (1998) and first secretary to the Permanent Mission of the State of Kuwait to the United Nations, New York (1997-1998).^{[citation needed]}

From 1986 to 1991 he was the diplomatic attaché for the Office of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in Kuwait.^[1]

He speaks Arabic, English and French. He is married to Lebanese-born former journalist Sheikha Rima al-Sabah, whom he met in 1983 when both were students in Beirut. They married in 1988 and have four sons.^[4]

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