Mariam Al-Aqeel

Mariam Eqeal Al-Saied Hashem Al-Aqeel (; born 1968) is a Kuwaiti accountant and politician who was the country's Minister of Finance from December 2019 to February 2020. Early life and education Al-Aqeel was born in 1968. She has a degree in accounting from Kuwait University. Career From 1990 until 1997, Al-Aqeel was an accountant at the Ministry of Higher Education. She has worked in Ministry of Finance since 1997, as an Auditor at the Public Authority until 2009 and then as Director of Budgeting, Vice President of the Financial Controllers Bureau, and Director General of the Central Statistics Bureau until 2018. She has previously chaired the Joint Financial Controllers Committee at the Ministry of Finance, the Statistical Center of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics in Jordan. Al-Aqeel was appointed Minister of State for Economic Affairs in December 2018. In March 2019, she was a member of Kuwait's delegation to United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York, where she praised Kuwait's "magnificent" effort in empowering women.