A new Kuwaiti government has been appointed, three months after the ex-Kuwaiti government resigned. Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah will become the country's new Prime Minister.

Al Qabas newspaper reports that an Emiri decree appointing Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al Salem as Prime Minister was issued today. 

The new government will also be formed under Sheikh Mohammed's leadership.

As the fourth son of the 12th Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, who ruled Kuwait from 1965 to 1977, Sheikh Mohammed was born in 1955.

A graduate of Claremont College in California, he holds a PhD from Harvard University in Economics and Middle Eastern Studies.

A former deputy prime minister and Kuwait's foreign minister, Al Sabah served as both. Kuwait appointed him ambassador to the US in 1993. Until 14 February 2001, when he was appointed state minister for foreign affairs, he held this position. From January 2003 to July 2003, he served as minister of finance. While retaining his position as foreign minister, Mohammad was appointed deputy prime minister on 11 February 2006.

As a protest against alleged corruption within Kuwait's government, he resigned from office on October 18, 2011. Upon leaving office, Al Sabah worked at Oxford University as a visiting fellow.