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38: 1071: 236:), a prestigious student organization that represents the interests of honor students, and was later elected as its vice president and eventually its president. As President of that organization, he voted on rewriting its bylaws to include direct student academic assistance through one-on-one tutoring and pushed for rebranding the organization and adopting the acronym DLCCBA. 1121: 330:), a liberal student organization that runs for the National Union of Kuwaiti Students's USA branch seats, writing in Al Anba newspaper that it's a principled organization that believes in democracy, liberty, equality and justice, furthermore explaining that any Kuwaiti student in the United States that's against sectarianism and tribalism should support it. 1096: 225:. He explains that his acceptance was based on a Public Authority for Applied Education and Training certificate, not his high school diploma, restricting his application to business school, adding that economics was the closest thing to Political Science and that he likes how it draws from other disciplines and the abstract nature of it. 456:
education policies to include transferrable skills that can adjust to the increasing deindustrialization of multiple sectors. He professes that the world is going to split not between core states and peripheral states but between countries that invest heavily in science and technology and those that don't.
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In Al Khaleej News, Abdulghaphor says that price controls distort the goods market and will eventually lead to either a surplus if prices were set too high or a deficit if prices were too low, adding that there are alternative policies that are less intrusive such as agricultural investment through
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Also, in 2014 he spearheaded a campaign that successfully lobbied the Kuwaiti Ministry of Youth Affairs and the Ministry of Social Works to issue a regulatory framework that gives volunteer organizations legal status. In 2015, the Association was granted legal status under Kuwaiti law and he was
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Abdulghaphor views automation as an inevitable outcome of technological progress, analyzing that the steady rise of unemployment in the middle east is partly caused by the modernization of both the private and public sectors. He adds that governments across the middle east should rethink their
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He became involved with the Democratic Forum in 2008 through its affiliate student organization, the Democratic Circle Ticket, and an affiliated youth organization the Youth Association of Kuwait, becoming a Treasurer of the former and Vice President of the latter. He's considered part of the
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after graduating from Kuwait University, working as a Research Assistant and Course Administrator at their regional office in Kuwait, the IMF's Center for Economics and Finance, gaining extensive knowledge on how international organizations operate and communicate with governments, learning
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diplomatic language and protocol on the hands of various senior IMF officials, and interacting on a regular basis with senior Arab government officials when organizing economic training courses on monetary policy, fiscal policy, energy policy, financial programming, and other topics.
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to join the Democratic Forum after representing the Youth Association of Kuwait in multiple events. In 2019, he was elected as a board member for the Forum and was later re-elected to the board and promoted to board secretary in 2020 where he served until 2022.
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After a short stint in the private sector, he was recruited to join Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, working on policy papers and empirical economic research on trade, investment, and economic policy, in addition to writing a business column at
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Hajjieh joined the National Democratic Youth Association in 2007, which later became the Youth Association of Kuwait in 2010, an affiliate of the Democratic Forum. He represented the Association at Kuwait Civil Alliance in 2014, and helped issue a
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Hajjieh moved to the private sector to work as an Investor Relations Manager at Safat Investment Company, a mid-size investment conglomerate. He also spearheaded different projects one of which yielded a Guinness World Record.
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elected as treasurer of the newly formed legal entity. In 2017 he was elected to Vice President of the Youth Association of Kuwait, however he quit soon after to pursue a political career in the Democratic Forum of Kuwait.
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He sees the emergence of online marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon contributed to the popularity of collectibles as investments, indicating that there is a trend of middle-class households starting to buy
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As an economist, Hajjieh writes generally about topics ranging from technology to public policy in various publications, mainly Al Qabas and Al Anbaa Newspapers.
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Abdulghaphor Hajjieh joined multiple liberal and left-leaning organizations in Kuwait in addition to Kuwait Graduate Society and Kuwait Economic Society.
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Hajjieh claims that a historical trend of Kuwaitization of clerical work as means of wealth distribution didn't start with the discovery of oil by
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Through a scholarship from Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, he is currently doing a graduate degree in economics at the
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faction of the Forum, advocating for gradual political and economic reform through elections and joining the
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and Al Taleea Newspaper as a journalist, and before graduation, he was chosen to intern at the
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in 1934, but rather later as a reaction to calls for political reform by nationalist and
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Abdulghaphor was requested by a senior government official in 2019 to participate in the
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Furthermore, with a group of colleagues, he started KU's first online, streaming through
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He also helped organize a symposium that hosted celebrated American journalist
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Hajjieh attended Khalid Saud Al Zaid High School, a public high school in
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in other countries and exporting them back with favorable prices.
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as a business columnist. He previously worked for the
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He attended Khaled Saud Al Zaid High School ( 193:, the third child of Mohammed Hajjieh Asirri ( 8: 672:"Graduate Student Elected to Student Senate" 406:, Mohammed Al-Abduljader in 2012 and 2013. 847:"حاجيه: ضرورة إعادة هيكلة الاقتصاد المحلي" 228:At KU, he joined the Dean's List Council ( 36: 18: 808:"CP November 2018 by CPmagazine - Issuu" 511: 189:Hajjieh was born on March 15, 1988, in 239:He also joined the Democratic Circle ( 823: 821: 7: 366:Community Participation and Activism 1024:حاجيه, عبدالغفور (28 August 2018). 421:United Nations Human Rights Council 419:document that was discussed at the 327: 283: 252: 244: 233: 206: 198: 135: 338:Hajjieh started his career at the 234:اللجنة الاستشارية للطلبة المتفوقين 14: 1173:Kuwaiti people of Iranian descent 1052:"الليفو ملاذ استثماري غير تقليدي" 537:خليفة, آلاء (September 3, 2009). 295:United States Department of State 386:He was a fixture of the Forum's 1026:"نلتمس منك الرضا سيدي الروبوت" 378:Abdulghaphor was recruited by 1: 646:Times, Kuwait (2023-05-08). 609:Kuwait University Newsletter 587:. 2022-05-24. 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Abdulghaphor Hajjieh wearing traditional Kuwaiti garments
Salmiya
Kuwait University
BSc
University of Kansas
MA
Economist
Politician
Kuwait Democratic Forum
Arabic
Democratic Forum
Youth Association of Kuwait
Qurain
Kuwait University
University of Kansas
Al Anba Newspaper
International Monetary Fund
centre-left
Al Sabah Cabinet
Salmiya
Arabic
Arabic
Kuwait University
Economics
Arabic
Arabic
Arabic
Kuwait Democratic Forum
National Democratic Alliance
Youth Association of Kuwait

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