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Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah ( , born 11 February 1940) is a Kuwaiti politician who has been the Prime Minister of Kuwait since 2006. He was appointed Prime Minister on February 7, 2006 by the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and was in office until 1 April 2011 when his cabinet resigned due to a stand-off with parliament; he was reappointed on 6 April 2011. In 1964, HH Sheikh Nasser graduated from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) with a BA degree in Political Science and Economics. Before becoming Prime Minister, HH Sheikh Nasser had served as ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan, the minister of information, minister of social affairs and labour, minister of state for foreign affairs and minister of the Amiri Diwan. Married with two sons, he is fluent in Arabic, English, French and Persian.

The Amir re-appointed Sheikh Nasser as prime minister on March 6, 2007, after the previous government resigned on March 4 in a move observers believe was aimed at avoiding a no-confidence motion against Health Minister Sheikh Ahmed Al Abdullah Al Sabah. Ten MPs presented the motion in February over suspected financial and administrative breaches at the ministry. The vote was due to have taken place in parliament on March 5 and Sheikh Ahmad, a member of the ruling family, would have had to step down if legislators had voted against him. In December, Information Minister Muhammad Al Sanousi resigned a day before he was due to face questioning in parliament.

On November 16, 2008, Islamist MPs Waleed AlـTabtabaie, Mohammed AlـMutair, and Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi filed a request to grill Prime Minister Nasser for allowing prominent Iranian Shiite cleric Mohammed al-Fali to enter Kuwait despite a legal ban. On November 25, the cabinet resigned, and on December 17 the Emir reappointed Nasser as Prime Minister of the new cabinet. And with the forming of the new cabinet, Nasser was no longer required to face the grilling which had been filed with the old cabinet.