In the first session of the council with its new formation, the board of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry recommended Mohammed Jassem Al-Sager for the presidency of the chamber.
This came in the wake of the Chamber’s General Assembly meeting held on March 31, in which the election supervision committee announced the conquest of 12 candidates, after 4 candidates apologized for not completing their candidacy due to the procedures of cordoning off the Coronavirus, which made the number of candidates Equal to those who were required to be elected on March 25 to occupy half of the Board of Directors seats.
In addition to his proven track record in the field of economy, trade, and industry, Al Sager holds several positions, locally, regionally and globally, as he holds the presidency of the Council on Arab and International Relations since August 2009, in addition to his presidency of the Arab Parliament between 2005 and 2009. Al-Sager was a prominent deputy in the National Assembly between 1999 and 2009. During that period, he served as chairman of the Council's Foreign Affairs Committee, and was also a member of the 2012 Council.
The new president of the Chamber took over the editor-in-chief of Al-Qabas newspaper from 1983 to 1999, and he received several awards in appreciation for his journalistic role, the last of which was the Media Personality of the Year award for the Dubai Prize for Arab Journalism in 2019.
Source (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Edited)
