Abdullah Ahmed Mohammed Al Saleh

Abdulla Ahmed Al Saleh is the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy. He has 32 years of experience in the federal government. He served at the UAE Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the UAE Embassy in Paris. Additionally, he worked in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister from 1998 to 2000. In 2004, he joined the Ministry of Economy as the Assistant Undersecretary for International Economic Relations (2004-2006), then as the Undersecretary for Economic Affairs (2006-2008), followed by the Undersecretary for Foreign Trade (2008-2013), and eventually became the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy for Foreign Trade until September 2020, and since then he is the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy.
He is a board member of the UAE Gender Balance Council, the UAE Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Council, and Member of the UAE Digital Economy Council. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund for Corporate Social Responsibility, the Chairman of the Competition Committee, a member of the Higher Committee for Consumer Protection, the General Secretary of the Economic Integration Committee, a member of the UAE Tourism Council, a board member of the Emirates International Accreditation Center, a board member of the Arab Planning Institute, a member of the UAE Trade Negotiation Team, a member of the National Committee for Developing In-Country Value (ICV) Policy, and a member of several advisory boards for colleges and universities in the country.
Abdulla holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the United Arab Emirates University (1990) and a Master’s degree in International Politics from the American University in Washington, D.C. (1997). He has also been awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Philosophy from Amity International University. In 2024, he was received the Prime Minister’s Medal as the Best Undersecretary in the Government of the UAE.